( 2026:JHHC:3692 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6357 of 2025 Shashi Bhushan Singh, aged about 53 years, son of Vikram Singh, village Terpa Palu, P.O. Patratu, P.S. Patratu, District-Ramgarh, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :None For the State : Mr. Fahad Allam, A.P.P. 05/ 11.02.2026: Nobody appeared on behalf of the petitioner. Learned counsel for the State is present. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Hazaribag Vigilance P.S. Case No. 8/2025 registered under section 7(a) of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018, pending in the Court of learned Special Judge (Vigilance), Hazaribag. 3. In the petition has been averred that petitioner has committed no offence and he has been made accused only on the basis of suspicion and nothing incriminating has been recovered from the possession of the petitioner. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer made in the petition and submits that petitioner was posted as Amin on contractual basis and he has demanded Rs. 50,000/-from the informant for making report in his favour. He further submits that Deputy Collector of Land Reforms called a report from the Circle Officer, Mandu and in course of the enquiry the petitioner visited the house of the informant and demanded Rs. 50,000/- that has come in para 4 of the case diary and even the Verification Officer had gone through the videos in which the petitioner was found to be demanding Rs. 50,000/- 5. Considering that the petitioner was posted as contractual Amin ( 2026:JHHC:3692 ) and pursuant to report called by the DCLR, he has gone on the instruction of Circle Officer to make enquiry and in course of that petitioner has demanded Rs. 50,000/- from the informant. The Verification Officer had gone through the videos in which the petitioner was found to be demanding Rs. 50,000/-. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner and accordingly, this anticipatory bail application is dismissed. Dt.11.02.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-