Jharkhand High Court
A.B.A./5223/2026 of KHAGENDRA MAHTO Vs THE STATE OF JHARKHAND on 21 September 2026
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5223 of 2026 ------ Khagendra Yadav, aged about 30 years, son of Tejlal Mahto, resident of Narayanpur, P.O. Bhandra, P.S. Nawadih, District Bokaro, Jharkhand .... .... …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .... .... ....
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2026:JHHC:28521 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
A.B.A. No. 5223 of 2026
------ Khagendra Yadav, aged about 30 years, son of Tejlal Mahto, resident of Narayanpur, P.O. Bhandra, P.S. Nawadih, District Bokaro, Jharkhand
.... .... …. Petitioner
Versus The State of Jharkhand .... .... .... Opposite Party
CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
For the Petitioner
: Mr. Rajesh Kumar Mahtha, Advocate
For the State
: Mr. Shree Prakash Jha, A.P.P.
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02/21.09.2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State.
2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Nawadih P.S. Case No. 40 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 190, 191(2), 126(2), 127(2), 115(2), 109, 132, 352, 351(3), 125(a), 324(4) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 3 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bermo at Tenughat.
3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that allegation against the petitioner is general and omnibus and the mob was assembled near the dead body of a person whose body was recovered from one Creta Car and the persons were agitating that firstly to trace out the culprit and then to take the body. He next submits that in the similar circumstance, 18 other co-accused persons have already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 6913 of 2025 and one co-accused person has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 2377 of 2026 by this court. He further submits that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para 12 of the petition.
4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of assembling of many persons and assaulting the police personnel.
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5. Looking into the contents of the FIR, it transpires that 21 persons are named and the FIR is against one unknown. It also transpires that the agitation was being made by the persons for tracing out the culprit first and then take the body of the deceased and there are general and omnibus allegations against the petitioner and further the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para 12 of the petition and in the similar circumstance, 19 other co-accused persons have already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in the aforementioned A.B.As., I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner.
6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of his surrender/arrest, petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bermo at Tenughat, in connection with Nawadih P.S. Case No. 40 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.)
Dated 21.09.2026 Anit
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