RANCHI, India, July 19 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on Jun 18:

This anticipatory bail application under Section(s) 482 and 484 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending her arrest for offences registered under Section(s) 302, 201 and 34 IPC .

Heard the parties at length and had gone through the documents, annexed along with this application.

Opportunity was given to the State to oppose the bail, which the State availed and opposed.

It is alleged that one Sarju Ram went missing. His dead body was found floating in the well.

During course of investigation, Kishun Deo Oraon and Santosh Uraon (both of them granted regular bail by a Bench of this Court in B.A No. 9634 of 2024), were arrested and they confessed that they have committed murder of the deceased. The name of the petitioner did not surface in their confessional statement. Later on, one Amabasya Devi was also taken into custody and she disclosed that along with others this petitioner committed the murder of the deceased.

The postmortem report suggests that the deceased died because of drowning and no trace of poison was found and no external antimortem injury was also found on the body of the deceased. Thus, the aforesaid fact creates a doubt as to whether actually the deceased was murder or not, as the postmortem report suggests that the deceased died due to drowning.

Considering the aforesaid facts, I am inclined to allow this anticipatory bail application. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is directed to surrender before the court below within four weeks from today and in the event of her surrender/arrest, the court below is directed to enlarge her on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned ACJM, Daltonganj, Palamau, in connection with Ramgarh P.S. Case No. 24 of 2024, subject to condition that one of the bailers should be close relative of the petitioner and other should be a resident of State of Jharkhand, having sufficient landed property in his/her name or in the name of his/her ancestors in which he/she is having share and to that effect, he/she has to file an affidavit before the Trial Court indicating his/her share in the property.

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