Neutral Citation No. ( 2026:JHHC:16789 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 3019 of 2026 Anuj Murmu @ Anuj Prakash Murmu @ Anuj Hembrom, aged about 26 years, son of Binocalar Hembrom @ Beni Kolar Murmu, resident of village Gidhni- Pahari (Sugapahari) P.O. Shivpahar, P.S. Dumka Town, District-Dumka (Jharkhand) ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :M/s Kismanti Minj & Jinid Seteng Horo, Advocates For the State : Mrs. Kumari Rashmi, Advocate 02/ 11.06.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Kathikund P.S. Case No. 17 of 2025, registered under sections 126(2), 127(2), 132, 324(4), 3(5) of BNS, 2023, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Dumka. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that five persons were detained by the villagers who were going to offer Puja in Tarapeeth. She next submits that petitioner has nothing to do with the said hostage and the petitioner has been implicated in this case only on the basis of suspicion. She next submits that allegation of altercation with the police was there against 150-200 villagers. She further submits that villagers assembled there and they have indulged in altercation with the police suspecting that the persons who have been kept as hostage were involved in kidnapping of the child. She next submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 13 of the petition. On these grounds, she submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits Neutral Citation No. ( 2026:JHHC:16789 ) that the petitioner is named in F.I.R. 5. Looking into contents of F.I.R., it transpires that the name of the petitioner has come from the mouth of villagers and the person who has taken the name of the petitioner, the name of that person is not disclosed in F.I.R. Further 150-200 villagers were assembled at the spot. There are general and omnibus allegation. The petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 13 of the petition. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Dumka, in connection with Kathikund P.S. Case No. 17 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.11.06.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-