( 2026:JHHC:18846 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 3350 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3350 of 2026 Devanand Kumar, aged about 23 years, S/o Shankar Saw, resident of Vill.- Bendi, P.O. Gujhandi, P.S. Chandwara, Dist. Koderma, Jharkhand … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Mrityunjay Chaudhary, Advocate For the State : Mr. Fahad Allam, A.P.P. ----- 02/29.06.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Koderma P.S. Case No.178/2024, registered for the offence under Sections 88, 89, 91 of the BNS, pending in the Court of the learned C.J.M., Koderma. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was present on the spot when the raid of police was made in Vedanta Hospital, Jhumari Telaiya, Koderma on secret information for the reason that abortion was illegally being done in the said hospital. He further submits that the girl was handed over to the petitioner and the petitioner has taken her to Sadar Hospital, Koderma. He next submits that even the abortion has not taken place. He also submits that staff of the hospital have been granted anticipatory bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No.3910 of 2025. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of taking the girl for abortion to Vedanta Hospital, Jhumari Telaiya, Koderma and in view of that, the prayer for anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. ( 2026:JHHC:18846 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 3350 of 2026 5. Looking into the contents of the FIR, it transpires that the petitioner was asked to take away the girl from the said hospital and in view of that, abortion was not taken place there and further, the co-accused persons, who are staff members of the said hospital, have been granted anticipatory bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in the aforesaid A.B.A. and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned C.J.M., Koderma in connection with Koderma P.S. Case No.178/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 29th June, 2026 Ajay/