RANCHI, India, May 18 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on April 16:

Heard Mr. Indrajit Sinha, learned counsel appearing for the appellants and Mr. A. K. Tiwari as well as Mr. Arup Kumar Dey, learned A.P.Ps. appearing for the State in both the cases.

These appeals are directed against the order dated 07.10.2025 passed in A B. P. No. 1434 of 2025 and order dated 12.11.2025 passed in A.B.P. No. 1690 of 2025 arising out of Govindpur P. S. Case No. 54 of 2025 by the learned District & Additional Sessions Judge VII cum Special Court (CAW), Jamshedpur whereby and whereunder the prayers for anticipatory bail of the appellants have been rejected.

It has been alleged that the informant was an employee of BHC Networking Pvt. Ltd. and Rs. 25,000/- was taken on the allurement of providing job and the trainees were brutally treated by the owners of the company. It has further been alleged that 2 months prior to the lodging of the FIR, there was a dispute between the members of the management and the trainees were left abandoned which resulted in institution of FIR.

Submission has been advanced by the learned counsel for the appellants that all the appellants were working in the company in various capacities and so far as the appellant - Krishna Kumar Mahato is concerned, he was working in managerial capacity in the company. Learned counsel for the appellants has further submitted that BHC Networking Pvt. Ltd. was dealing in human resources where training is imparted to the aspirants for getting jobs and in fact it appears that as per the pen drive the allegation is attributed to one Noshad Alam.

Learned A.P.Ps for the State have opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the appellants and have submitted that the appellants were in fact running a company and were also involved in mal-treatment of the trainees and taking money from them on the allurement of providing job.

On consideration of the allegations made and the fact that the company is primarily involved in human resources and there is allegation against Noshad Alam, who is not the present appellant apart from the fact that the allegations are vague and omnibus in nature and the appellants seem to be the employees of the networking company, we while setting aside the order dated 07.10.2025 passed in A B. P. No. 1434 of 2025 and order dated 12.11.2025 passed in A.B.P. No. 1690 of 2025 by the learned District & Additional Sessions Judge VII cum Special Court (CAW), Jamshedpur, direct the appellants to surrender in the court below within four weeks and pray for bail, and in that event, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned J. M. 1st class, Jamshedpur in connection with Govindpur P. S. Case No. 54 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

Both these appeals are allowed.

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