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2026 DAILYLAW 18192 (JHR)

KANCHAN DEVI v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND

A.B.A./3410/2026 · 2026-06-29

Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi

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2026:JHHC:18813 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 3410 of 2026 ---- 1.Kanchan Devi, aged about 42 years, wife of late Prabhu Mehta 2.Shravan Mehta @ Shravan Kumar Mehta, aged about 20 years, son of late Prabhu Mehta, All are residents of Village Soki, PO and PS Mayurhand, District Chatra, Jharkhand .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Agnivesh, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Rakesh Kumar Sinha, Advocate ---- 2/29.06.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Mayurhand PS Case No.22 of 2026, for offence registered under section 115(2), 118(1), 126(2), 109, 303(2), 351(2), 352, 3(5) of BNS, 2023, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that there are case and counter case between the parties and the altercation took place due to land dispute. He next submits that both the sides have received injury and the informant and his wife have been granted anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge in the case lodged by the petitioners’ side. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that 2026:JHHC:18813 2 allegation of assault is there and pursuant to that injury has been received by the informant and in view of that anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. 5. Considering that there are case and counter case between the parties and the altercation took place due to land dispute and both the sides have received injury and the informant and his wife have been granted anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge in the case lodged by the petitioners’ side, and in the attending facts and circumstances of the instant case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to both the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, both the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, both 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 like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Chatra, in connection with Mayurhand PS Case No.22 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 29.06.2026 SI/