( 2026:JHHC:21058 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 3868 of 2026 1. Saroj Devi, aged about 39 years, wife of Shailesh Singh, resident of Sarauna Singh, P.O. Tetarain, P.S. Panki, Tetrain, District-Palamau 2. Sunita Kumari, aged about 37 years, wife of Pankaj Kumar, resident of Dhub, P.O. Dhub, P.S. Panki, District-Palamau 3. Pankaj Kumar @ Pankaj Singh, aged about 39 years, son of Jhalu Mahto, resident of Dhub, P.O. and P.S. Panki, District-Palamau ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Advocate For the State : Mr. Pankaj Kumar, P.P. 02/ 17.07.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Panki P.S. Case No. 34 of 2026, registered under sections 406, 420, 384, 385, 304-A, 323, 353, 500, 504 and 120B of the I.P.C, 1860, pending in the Court of learned C.J.M at Palamau. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in this case. He next submits that petitioners have nothing to do with the operation made upon the body of the deceased who happens to be wife of the informant. He further submits that petitioner nos. 1 and 2 are nurses in the Government Hospital and petitioner no. 3 is driver in the said Government Hospital. He next submits that only allegation is made that petitioners have advised the informant to go to private hospital for operation and the operation was done in New Life Hospital, Panki. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that allegations are there against the petitioners that they advised the ( 2026:JHHC:21058 ) informant to go to private hospital for operation. 5. Considering that petitioner nos. 1 and 2 are nurses in the Government Hospital and petitioner no. 3 is driver in the said Government Hospital and only allegation is made that petitioners have advised the informant to go to private hospital and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners 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 C.J.M at Palamau, in connection with Panki P.S. Case No. 34 of 2026, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.17.07.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-