2026:JHHC:19412 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 3552 of 2026 ---- Nishant Kumar @ Nikku, aged about 36 yeas son of Jitendra Singh @ Jitendra Kumar, resident of Village Fatehpur Near Mandir, PO and PS Didarganj, District Patna, Bihar .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Shashikant Jaiswal, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Shashi Kumar Verma, Advocate ---- 2/03.07.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Sadar P.S. Case No.172 of 2025, for offence registered under section 126(2), 115(2), 109, 303(2), 326(F), 85, 82(1), 61(2), 352, 351(2), 3(5) of BNS, 2023 and Section 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, pending in court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that the petitioner is the husband of the informant and false allegations are made of demand of dowry and he next submits that the allegation of torture is not there against this petitioner and such allegation is there against the father-in-law and mother-in-law and they have been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.7319 of 2025. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the 2026:JHHC:19412 2 petitioner happened to be husband of the informant and in view of that anticipatory bail may not be granted. 5. In the FIR, only allegation is made against the petitioner of demanding Rs.11 lacs and so far as the allegation of keeping pistol is made that is against the father-in-law and father- in-law and mother-in-law have been granted anticipatory bail 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, Chatra, in connection with Sadar P.S. Case No.172 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 03.07.2026 SI/