RANCHI, India, May 28 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on April 28:

1. Heard the parties.

2. This anticipatory bail application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioners apprehending their arrest for offences registered under Sections 323, 306, 420, 120-B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.

4. The petitioners are none but the son and daughter-in-law of the informant with whom the deceased was residing. Deceased is the husband of the informant and father of the petitioner no. 1.

5. From the arguments of the parties, I find that the informant was residing separately. She got information that her husband is dead. She lodges the FIR alleging that these petitioners who are son and daughter in law with whom deceased was residing had forced the husband to commit suicide to grab the property.

6. From the arguments, it is quite clear that the deceased has committed suicide and there are materials which primafacie suggest that the deceased in the state of depression has committed suicide. Admittedly there are several litigations between the informant and the deceased and the son also. It has also come in the case-diary that the petitioners are cooperating with the investigation and even appeared before the police, this is apparent from paragraph no. 151 of the case- diary.

7. Considering the aforesaid fact, this Court finds it a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners.

8. Accordingly, this Anticipatory Bail Application stands allowed. The petitioners, above named, are directed to surrender before the learned court below within four weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order and on the event of their surrender or arrest, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class at Jamshedpur, in connection with Bagbera P.S. Case No.65 of 2021, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be a close relative of the petitioner and other should be a resident of State of Jharkhand, having sufficient landed property in his name or in the name of his ancestors in which he is having share and to that effect, he has to file an affidavit before the Trial Court indicating his share in the property.

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