RANCHI, India, April 9 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on March 9:

1. This bail application has been filed under Sections 483 and 484 of the BNSS, 2023 wherein, prayer has been made for grant of bail as the petitioner is in custody for allegedly committing offences punishable under Sections 310(2) & 311 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.

2. Heard, the learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State and have also gone through the impugned order.

3. The learned APP opposes the prayer for grant of bail.

4. After hearing the parties, I find and also admitted by the learned APP that save and except the confessional statement, there is nothing against the petitioner. Admittedly, petitioner is not named in the F.I.R. and one of co-accused has been enlarged on bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in B.A. No.207 of 2026 (Shahindar Gwala @ Chote Gwala Vs. The State of Jharkhand).

5. Considering the aforesaid facts, I am inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is directed to be released 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Simdega in connection with Mufassil P.S. Case No.26/2025 subject to the condition that one of the bailors should be close relative of the petitioner having sufficient landed property in his/her own name within the State of Jharkhand with a further condition that the petitioner shall appear and mark their attendance before the Registrar, Civil Court, Simdega once in a month till the disposal of the trial.

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