[ 2026:JHHC:20085] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3722 of 2026 1. Ruplal Mahto, aged about 75 years, son of late Dwarika Mahto. 2. Prakash Kumar Mahto, aged about 31 years, son of Chhoti Mahto. 3. Mahadev Prasad, aged about 33 years son of Tuklal Mahto @ Tuklal Prasad 4. Vinod Prasad @ Binod Prasad, aged about 40 years son of Naro Mahto. All are residents of village Jhurjhuri, P.O. Jhurjhuri P.S-Barkatha District Hazaribag Jharkhand. ..... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Sahdeo Choudhary, Advocate. For the State : Mr. B. Shastri, A.P.P. ------ 03/ 08.07.2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Barkatha P.S. Case No. 41 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 191(1), 192, 190, 132, 196, 299, 326(f), 326(g), 324(5), 125(a), 125(b) and 61 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Hazaribag. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that F.I.R. is against 150 to 200 unknown accused persons and 45 named accused persons, however, the petitioners are named in F.I.R. He submits that there are general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners. He submits that allegations are there that all the accused persons were assembled there and they were raising slogan and pelting stones. He submits that petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 12 of the petition. He further submits that in the similar [ 2026:JHHC:20085] -2- circumstance, the other co-accused persons have already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5325 of 2025 by this court. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that allegations are there of raising slogans and pelting stones. On this ground, he submits that anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. 5. Considering that the F.I.R. is against 150 to 200 unknown accused persons and 45 named accused persons and there are general and omnibus allegation against the petitioners and they are having no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 12 of the petition and in the similar circumstance, the other co-accused persons have already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in the aforementioned A.B.A. and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners, above named. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, named above, 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Hazaribag, in connection with Barkatha P.S. Case No. 41 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-08.07.2026 Amitesh/-