( 2026:JHHC:1722 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 312 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 312 of 2026 Babita Kumari @ Babita Devi, aged about 26 years, wife of Sudan Yadav, resident of Village-Paroriya, P.O. Badgawan, P.S. Mayurhand, District- Chatra, Jharkhand … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Baleshwar Yadav, Advocate For the State : Mr. Satish Kumar Keshri, A.P.P. ----- 02/22.01.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in connection with Mayurhand P.S. Case No.53/2025, registered for the offence under Sections 115(2), 118(1), 126(2), 117(2), 352 of the BNS, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner and informant are sisters-in-law. He further submits that the altercation took place due to family dispute. He then submits that the allegation is made that the petitioner has pelted bricks on the informant and pursuant to that she has received injury. He next submits that the informant has filed a petition before the learned Judicial Magistrate, Chatra saying that later on she came to know that the petitioner has not pelted the bricks. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the injuries are there on the eye of the informant. 5. Annexure-2 is the document, which suggests that the informant has stated by way of filing a petition before the learned Judicial Magistrate, Chatra that later on she came to know that the petitioner has not pelted bricks. The ( 2026:JHHC:1722 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 312 of 2026 petitioner and informant, both are relatives. 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 her arrest or surrender, she 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, Chatra in connection with Mayurhand P.S. Case No.53/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 22nd January, 2026 Ajay/