( 2026:JHHC:14590 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 2465 of 2026 1. Md. Eqbal Alam @ Eqbal Khan, aged about 50 years son of Md. Hafiz 2. Nurul Hassan @ Md. Nurul Hasan, aged about 41 years, son of Abdul Hamid Khan Both are residents of village Mandeya, P.O. and P.S. Chhatarpur, District-Palamau ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. A.K. Chaturvedy, Advocate For the State : Mr. Vishwanath Roy, Spl. P.P. For the Informant : Ms. K. Pragati R. Narayan, Advocate 02/ 13.05.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Chhatarpur P.S. Case No. 249 of 2025, registered under sections 191(2), 191(3), 190, 126(2), 115(2), 117(2), 109(1), 352, 351(3) of BNS, 2023, pending in the Court of learned J.M, Ist Class, Palamau. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in this case and there are case and counter case between the parties. He next submits that both parties have received injury. He submits that petitioners have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 16 of the petition. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsels for the State and informant oppose the prayer and submit that allegations of assault are there. 5. Looking into contents of F.I.R it transpires that allegations are there against accused Istiyak Khan and Akbar Khan. How these petitioners have assaulted and what injury has been received pursuant to assault of the petitioners, is not disclosed. There are case and counter case between the ( 2026:JHHC:14590 ) parties, both parties have received injury and petitioners have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 16 of the petition. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned J.M, Ist Class, Palamau, in connection with Chhatarpur P.S. Case No. 249 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.13.05.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-