( 2026:JHHC:18818 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 3406 of 2026 1. Ramdev Thakur, son of late Bhavani Thakur, aged about 65 years, resident of Barhi, Padirma Hazaribagh, P.O. Barhi, District-Hazaribagh, Jharkhand 2. Jageshwari Devi, wife of Ramdev Thakur, aged about 62 years, resident of Barhi, Padirma Hazaribagh, P.O. Barhi, P.S. Barhi, District- Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Abhishek Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Shiv Shankar Kumar, A.P.P 02/ 29.06.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Barhi P.S. Case No. 262 of 2025 registered under sections 80(2) and 3(5) of BNS, pending in the Court of learned S.D.J.M, Hazaribagh. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 is father-in-law and petitioner no.2 is mother-in-law aged about 65 and 62 years respectively. He next submits that deceased has died due to drowning in a pond and this fact has been supported by the witnesses and also considered by the learned Sessions Judge. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that petitioners are father-in-law and mother-in-law of the deceased. 5. In the impugned order it has come that petitioners are the parents-in-law of the deceased and deceased has died due to drowning in a pond and this fact has been supported by the witnesses as mentioned in paras 2 to 6 of the case diary. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined ( 2026:JHHC:18818 ) 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 S.D.J.M, Hazaribagh, in connection with Barhi P.S. Case No. 262 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.29.06.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-