2026:JHHC:1902 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 377 of 2026 ---- 1.Dena Manjhi @ Dhena Manjhi, aged about 46 years, son of Jila Manjhi, 2.Sunil Soren @ Sunil Manjhi, aged about 24 years, son of Dena Manjhi @ Dhena Manhui, 3.Manoj Soren, aged about 26 years, son of Agnu Soren 4.Hiralal Soren @ Harilal Soren, aged about 28 years, son of Adhanu Manjhi 5.Aghanu Manjhi, aged about 50 years, son of Jila Manjhi, 6.Chunku Manjhi, aged about 36 years, son of Jaglal Manjhi 7.Hiramani Devi @ Hiramuni Devi, aged about 43 years wife of Dena Manjhi @ Dhena Manjhi 8.Anita Devi aged about 34 years wife of Chunku Manjhi 9.Panpati Devi, aged about 44 years, wife of Aghanu Manjhi All are residents of Village Bahera, PO and PS Charhi, Dist. Hazaribagh .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. S. Hamidul Haque, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Subodh Kr. Dubey, Advocate ---- 2/27.01.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Charhi P.S. Case No.69 of 2025, for offence registered under sections 191(2), 190, 109(1), 115(2), 352, 351(2) of BNS, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Hazaribagh. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that altercation took place due to cultivation of paddy in the field and there are general and omnibus allegations against all the accused persons of assault. He also submits that injury is said to be simple. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that on the vital part the assault has been made on the body of the informant. 2026:JHHC:1902 2 5. Looking to the contents of the FIR, it transpires that there is direct allegation against the petitioner no.2, namely, Sunil Soren @ Sunil Manjhi of assault on the head by rod and pursuant to that, the injury has been received, and in that view of the matter, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner no.2, namely, Sunil Soren @ Sunil Manjhi, and as such prayer for anticipatory bail so far as the petitioner no.2, namely, Sunil Soren @ Sunil Manjhi is concerned, is hereby, rejected. 6. So far as the rest of the petitioners, i.e., petitioner nos.1 and 3 to 9 are concerned, there are general and omnibus allegations against them and altercation took place due to land dispute and as such, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner nos.1 and 3 to 9. 7. Accordingly, petitioner nos.1 and 3 to 9 are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, petitioner nos.1 and 3 to 9, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Hazaribagh, in connection with Charhi P.S. Case No.69 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 27.01.2026 SI/