( 2026:JHHC:24335 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 4511 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4511 of 2026 Anurag Pandey @ Anurag Vaishnav, aged about 18 years, S/o Jai Prakash Pandey, R/o 5/C, Sakchi, Gurudwara Basti, Near Sakchi Gurudwara, P.O. & P.S. Sakchi, District- East Singhbhum … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Vishal Kumar Trivedi, Advocate For the State : Mr. Shailesh Kumar Sinha, A.P.P. ----- 02/14.08.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Golmuri P.S. Case No.65 of 2026 dated 29.05.2026, registered for the offence under Sections 126(2), 127(2), 115(2), 117(2), 109(1), 303(2), 308(5), 351(2), 352 and 3(5) of the BNS, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Jamshedpur. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. He further submits that the name of the petitioner has come on confessional statement. He then submits that even the injury is found to be simple. He next submits that the petitioner is a student and just now he has passed Class XII examination. He also submits that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 16 of this application. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there that the petitioner was also present along with others. On these grounds, he submits that the prayer for anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. ( 2026:JHHC:24335 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 4511 of 2026 5. Considering that the petitioner is not named in the FIR and his name has come on confessional statement and the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and it has been pointed out that the petitioner is a student, which is fortified in light of Annexure-2 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Jamshedpur in connection with Golmuri P.S. Case No.65 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 14th August, 2026 Ajay/