2026:JHHC:18983 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 3479 of 2026 ---- Md. Mustak Ansari @ Mustak Moulana, aged about 52 years, son of late Gulu Main, resident of Village Heth Bhithra, PO Karmatar, PS Karmatar, District Jamtara .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Prashant Kumar Rai, Advocate For the State :- Mr. P.D. Agarwal, Spl.P.P. ---- 2/30.06.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Karmatanr PS Case No.53 of 2024, for offence registered under section 147, 149, 323, 341, 342, 332, 353, 224 and 225 of IPC, pending in court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamtara. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that the allegations are made that when the Kolkata police has gone to arrest one Wasim Ansari, 400 villagers have assembled and they have got said Wasim Ansari free. He next submits that there are general and omnibus allegations against 400 persons including the petitioner and said Wasim Ansari has been granted anticipatory bail by Coordinate Bench of this Court in ABA No.6525 of 2024 and further two of the co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.5710 of 2024. He also submits that although the petitioner is having one criminal antecedent, however, in that case 2026:JHHC:18983 2 the petitioner has been acquitted and he submits that on these grounds, anticipatory bail may kindly be granted. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the allegations are there against the petitioner of unlawful assembly. 5. Considering that in the FIR the allegations are made against 400 persons of getting free said Wasim Ansari and the said Wasim Ansari has been granted anticipatory bail as aforesaid and further two of the co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by Coordinate Bench as aforesaid, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner. 6. Accordingly, petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of his surrender/arrest, petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamtara, in connection with Karmatanr PS Case No.53 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 30.06.2026 SI/