2026:JHHC:1943 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.5588 of 2025 1. Deepak Kumar Yadav @ Karu Yadav @ Deepak Kumar, aged about 29 years; 2. Mani Kumar Yadav @ Manish Kumar, aged about 26 years; Both son of Baijnath Yadav, resident of Village Pavo, P.O. Tikar, P.S. Chatra, District-Chatra …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Rohan Mazumdar, Advocate For the State : Ms. Sharda Kumari, AC to PP ------ 4/27.01.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection Chatra Sadar P.S. Case No. 220 of 2025, for the offence registered under Sections 74, 78, 352, 351 (2), 3(5) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in this case and the alleged occurrence is dated 09.06.2025 whereas the FIR has been lodged on 21.6.2025. He also submits that the dispute is with regard to the agricultural land between the petitioner and the informant, which has come in para 12 of the counter affidavit filed by the respondent State. He next submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents as disclosed in para 14 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegation of molestation is there against the petitioners and the victim was saved by her sister-in-law. She also 2026:JHHC:1943 2 submits that even they have threatened the victim. She next submits that the notice under section 35(3) of BNSS has not been complied by the petitioner. 5. In the FIR, the alleged date of occurrence is dated 9.6.2025 whereas the FIR has been lodged on 21.6.2025. In the FIR, it has been alleged that the victim has been rescued by the sister-in-law, however the sister-in-law of the victim has not chosen to lodge the case immediately. In para 12 of the counter affidavit, it has come that the petitioners are said to be agriculturists and in para 9 of the petition, it is stated that there is dispute with regard to the agricultural land and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents as disclosed in Para-14 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners above named are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of their surrender / arrest, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Chatra Sadar P.S. Case No. 220 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 27.01.2026 R.Kumar