( 2026:JHHC:13937 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 2303 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 2303 of 2026 Lalu Kumhar, aged about 56 years, son of Mahadev Kumhar, resident of Village- Kachabari Puku, P.O. & P.S. Karra, District- Khunti … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Gaurav, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Lily Sahay, A.P.P. ----- 04/08.05.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Karra P.S. Case No.33/2025 dated 17.04.2025, registered for the offence under Sections 318, 336, 338, 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pending in the Court of the learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Khunti. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has given all genuine documents including Aadhar Card, Pan Card, rent receipts of land, Khatiyan, village map and other documents of land including correct genealogy table of his family to the purchasers namely Bhuwan Ram Keshri and Niranjan Sahu and, thereafter, the deed was prepared and executed in favour of two purchasers. He further submits that false allegation is made of preparing forged genealogy by way of putting signature of the informant. He next submits that the petitioner has sold his own land and pursuant to that, the land is also mutated in the name of purchasers. He also submits that the witness in the sale-deed has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court in A.B.A. No.468 of 2026. He further submits that the purchasers have also been granted anticipatory bail by the ( 2026:JHHC:13937 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 2303 of 2026 learned Sessions Judge himself. On these grounds, he submits that anticipatory bail may kindly be granted to the petitioner. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there against the petitioner of preparing forged genealogy by putting signature of the informant. 5. Considering that the sale has already been taken effect and the petitioner has given all genuine documents to the purchasers and the sale- deed has been executed and the land has been mutated in the name of the purchasers and the witness and purchasers have already been granted anticipatory bail by this Court in the aforesaid A.B.A. and by the learned Sessions Judge respectively and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Khunti in connection with Karra P.S. Case No.33/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 8th May, 2026 Ajay/