2026:JHHC:14467 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 685 of 2026 ---- XXXXXXXX and Anr. .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Soumitra Baroi, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Bishwambhar Shastri, Advocate ---- 2/12.05.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Dumaria P.S.Case No.15 of 2024, for offence registered under section 126, 115(2), 118(1), 303(2), 329(4), 74, 352, 351(2), 351(3), 3(5) of BNS, 2023, pending in court of learned S.D.J.M., Ghatshila. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that false allegations are made against the petitioners and the petitioner no.2 is the second wife of the husband of the informant. He next submits that the informant herself has initiated for the marriage of her husband along with the petitioner no.2 as they are issueless. He next submits that other co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge and vague allegations are made against all the accused persons including the petitioners of teasing the informant. He also submits that out of jealous, false case has been created and allegation is there of assaulting the husband of the informant, however, the husband of the informant was not taken to the hospital at any point of time. On these grounds, he submits that anticipatory 2026:JHHC:14467 2 bail may kindly be granted. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the allegations are there of teasing the informant. 5. In the FIR itself, it has been disclosed that the informant got the marriage solemnized of the petitioner no.2 with her husband as they were issueless and the petitioner no.1 is the brother of the petitioner no.2 who happened to be second wife of the husband of the informant. Prima-facie, it appears that the case has been instituted against all the family members when the husband of the informant started taking care of the petitioner no.2 along with the newly born child, whereas in the first instance, the informant herself got marriage solemnized of the petitioner no.2 along with her husband, and in the attending facts and circumstances of the instant case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, both petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within two weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, the petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Ghatshila, in connection with Dumaria P.S.Case No.15 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 12.05.2026 SI/