2026:JHHC:15429 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 2762 of 2026 --- Chandrakant Vaidh, aged about 33 years, Son of Roopchandra Vaidih, Resident of Village- Shastrinagar near Gaushala Road, P.O. & P.S.- Dumka, District- Dumka. … … Petitioner(s) Versus 1. The State of Jharkhand 2. Mushtaq Seikh, Son of Juman Seikh, resident of Village- Kalhodia, P.O. & P.S. Jama, District- Dumka … … Opposite Party(s) --- CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RONGON MUKHOPADHYAY --- For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Sanjeev Thakur, Advocate For the Opposite Party(s) : A.P.P. --- 2/26.05.2026 Heard Mr. Sanjeev Thakur, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Dumka (T) P.S. Case No. 175 of 2024. It has been alleged that the petitioner had taken the Scorpio vehicle of the informant on monthly rent, but he stopped making payment and instead had mortgaged the vehicle to a third person. Submission has been advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the lease agreement was entered into between the petitioner and the informant and the First Information Report has been instituted before the expiry of the period depicted in the lease. Learned counsel further submits that petitioner does not have any criminal antecedent and so far as the witnesses whose mention has been made in the impugned order of being subjected to similar sort of an offence by the petitioner, no case has been instituted by them. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. Regard being had to the facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the petitioner above named is directed to surrender in the court below within four weeks and pray for bail, and in that event, 2026:JHHC:15429 2 he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dumka in connection with Dumka (T) P. S. Case No. 175 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. This application stands allowed. (Rongon Mukhopadhyay, J) 26th May, 2026. Simran/-