( 2026:JHHC:13397 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 7236 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7236 of 2025 Sunil Kumar, age 21 years, S/o Babun Yadav, resident of Village- Gaipahari, P.O. & P.S. Bharkarta, District- Hazaribagh … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Prashant Kumar Rai, Advocate For the State : Mr. Vishwanath Roy, Spl.P.P. ----- 03/06.05.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Sariya P.S. Case No.236/2024, registered for the offence under Sections 319(2), 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 61(2), 3(5) of the B.N.S. 2023, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Giridih. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. According to him, forged certificates were not provided by this petitioner to the apprehended co-accused. He further submits that the said forged certificates along with progress report card of several students of many schools have been recovered from the apprehended co-accused. He then submits that the Principal of Modern Carmel Public School, Parsiya, Saria, Giridih has been granted anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge. On these grounds, he submits that anticipatory bail may kindly be provided to the petitioner. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that in para 4 of the case diary and in other relevant paras of the ( 2026:JHHC:13397 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 7236 of 2025 case diary, the informant and other witnesses have supported the case of the prosecution and they have stated regarding complicity of this petitioner in the commission of the alleged occurrence. He next submits that forged progress report cards of several students of many schools have been recovered along with other forged incriminating documents and seized from the apprehended co-accused persons on the spot, which was prepared on the basis of forged documents provided by the petitioner. He also submits that in para 54 of the case diary, it has been revealed that the mobile number 98679221451 is used by the petitioner. He then submits that Sri Ramesh Rana, Principal of SVM High School, Barsotitand, Bedokala, Barkatha, Hazaribag has stated that the said certificates have not been issued from his school and even the name of the school is different. On these grounds, he submits that the prayer for anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. 5. In view of the above, it transpires that the mobile number of the petitioner has been disclosed in para 54 of the case diary. In para 34 of the case diary, the Principal of SVM High School, Barsotitand, Bedokala, Barkatha, Hazaribag has stated that even the school’s name is not tallying in the said certificates and those certificates were not issued from his school. The allegations are there of manufacturing forged progress report cards and other documents of several students of many schools in connivance with the petitioner. So far as anticipatory bail granted to Sri Pradeep Kumar Pandey @ Pradeep Pandey, who is the Principal of Modern Carmel Public School, Parsiya, Sariya, Giridih by the learned Sessions Judge is concerned, that allegation is not there against the Principal of ( 2026:JHHC:13397 ) -3- A.B.A. No. 7236 of 2025 the said school. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner and, as such, his prayer for anticipatory bail is, hereby, rejected. 6. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 6th May, 2026 Ajay/