2026:JHHC:1236 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.182 of 2026 Santosh Tudu age about 28 years, S/o Raje Tudu, resident of Village - Lakrapahari, P.O.- Monglabandh, P.S. Pakuria, District- Pakur (Jharkhand) …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Md. Yasir Arafat, Advocate For the State : Mr. V.S. Sahay, APP ------ 2/16.01.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioner and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Pakuria P.S. Case No. 24/2024 instituted u/s 147, 148, 149, 385, 387, 392, 307, 427, 379 of IPC, pending in the court of learned J.M. 1st Class Pakur. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the alleged occurrence is said to be occurred on 8.6.2024. However, the FIR has been lodged on 11.6.2024 after a delay of five days. He also submits that the allegation is made that 40 to 50 persons have tried to beat the informant as he has dashed the hut of one of the village and for that the people had assembled there. He also submits that the petitioner has complied the notice under Section 35(3) of BNSS and he has appeared before the police and cooperated in the investigation. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the state opposed the prayer and submits that the allegation is there of assembling 40 to 50 persons and the petitioner is named in the FIR. 2026:JHHC:1236 2 5. In view of the above and considering that the petitioner has complied notice under Section 35 (3) of BNSS and for dashing of one of hut by the vehicle, the agitation was going on. In the attending facts and circumstances of this case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of his surrender / arrest, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned J.M. 1st Class Pakur, in connection with Pakuria P.S. Case No. 24/2024, 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.) 16.01.2026 R.Kumar