( 2026:JHHC:3860 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 7435 of 2025 1. Md. Istiyak, aged about 38 years 2. Atif Ansari, aged about 22 years Both son of late Md. Mokhtar, resident of Harmu Azad Chowk, Near Masjid-e-Hamim, Harmu, Doranda, P.O. Doranda, P.S. Argora, District- Ranchi, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Avishek Prasad, Advocate For the State : Mr. Bishambhar Shastri, A.P.P. For the Informant : Mr. Jitesh Kumar, Advocate 03/ 12.02.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State and learned counsel for the Informant. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Argora P.S. Case No. 210 of 2025, registered under sections 80/3(5) of BNS, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ranchi. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are brother-in-law of the deceased and the deceased has committed suicide. He further submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in this case and they are nothing to do with the allegation of demand of dowry. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsels for the State and informant jointly oppose the prayer and submit that allegations of demand of dowry are there and even by way of keeping the land to another person, the father of the deceased has paid Rs. 1,50,000/- to the husband of the deceased and in view of that the anticipatory bail application of these petitioners may kindly be rejected. 5. In para 8 of the case diary it has come that after the death of deceased all family members have fled away from the house. Md. Istiyak- ( 2026:JHHC:3860 ) petitioner no.1 had informed the family members of the deceased that deceased has fallen in the bathroom pursuant to that she has died. Wherein the case diary it has come that due to hanging and assault by hard and blunt substance injury has been received. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly their prayer for anticipatory bail is hereby rejected. Dt.12.02.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-