( 2026:JHHC:18538 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 3425 of 2026 1. Akhtari Begum, aged about 52 years, wife of Sheikh Shamim, resident of village -Amjhar, P.O. and P.S. Baliapur, District-Dhanbad, Jharkhand 2. Guriya Khatun, aged about 23 years, wife of Shekh Noor Alam, resident of village -Amjhar, P.O. and P.S. Baliapur, District-Dhanbad, Jharkhand 3. Shekh Noor Alam, aged about 30 years, son of Sekh Shamim, resident of village -Amjhar, P.O. and P.S. Baliapur, District-Dhanbad, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Tarun Kumar, Advocate : Mr. Biplav Bhuiyan, Advocate : Mr. Md. Saddam Ansari, Advocate For the State : Mr. Ajay Kr. Pathak, A.P.P. For the Informant : Mr. M.B. Lal, Advocate 02/ 24.06.2026: 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 Baliapur P.S. Case No.61 of 2026, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 80(2) and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 is mother-in-law, petitioner no.2 is sister-in-law and petitioner no.3 is brother-in-law of the deceased respectively. He next submits that cousin brother of the husband of the deceased has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 3215 of 2026. He further submits that deceased has committed suicide and it has come in the postmortem report that it has occurred due to asphyxia due to hanging. He then submits that husband of the deceased is already in custody. On these grounds, he submits that anticipatory bail may kindly be granted. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State and Informant jointly ( 2026:JHHC:18538 ) opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of torture and assault and in view of that anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. 5. Considering that petitioner no.1 is mother-in-law, petitioner no.2 is sister-in-law and petitioner no.3 is brother-in-law of the deceased respectively, the cousin brother of husband of the deceased has been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.A, the husband of the ceased is already in custody and in the FIR the allegations are there against the husband of the deceased of demand of dowry and car and the death is said to be due to asphyxia due to hanging. In the attending facts and circumstances of this case, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the 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 the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad in connection with Baliapur P.S. Case No.61 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Dt.24.06.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-