RANCHI, India, Dec. 20 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on Nov. 20:

Heard the learned counsel for the respective sides.

This appeal is directed against the order dated 26.08.2025 passed in Bail Petition No. 261 of 2025 arising out of AHTU P.S. Case No. 03/2024 by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-I, Sahibganj, whereby and whereunder, the prayer for bail of the appellant has been rejected.

It has been alleged that the daughter of the informant was taken away by the appellant sometimes in May, 2019 on the pretext of getting her employed. It has further been alleged that the appellant was running a placement agency and after one year of taking away of the daughter of the informant, the conversation between the informant and his daughter stopped and when the informant went to Delhi in search of his daughter, she could not be traced out.

Submission has been advanced by the learned counsel for the appellant that some of the main persons have not been made witnesses in the charge-sheet submitted by the police. It has further been submitted that there has been inordinate delay in instituting the First Information Report and in fact the informant does not have any objection if the appellant is granted bail.

Ms. Vidhika Saboo, learned counsel for the informant has stated that an affidavit has been submitted from which it clearly transpires that the informant does not have any objection if the appellant is granted bail.

It appears that one of the co-accused, namely, Mangla Pahariya @ Mangala Pahadiya has been granted bail on account of the fact that he had limited role to play in the entire episode of human trafficking. However, so far as the present appellant is concerned, specific allegation has been levelled against him of taking away the daughter of the informant in the year 2019 and it is an admitted fact that till date the victim is traceless. The affidavit filed by the informant would clearly reveal about the manner in which the appellant is tampering with the evidence. We therefore despite the affidavit filed by the informant revealing his no objection to the grant of bail to the appellant does not find it a justifiable ground and moreso on account of the specific allegation levelled against the appellant and consequently we dismiss this appeal at this stage.

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