RANCHI, India, March 25 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on Feb. 20:

1. The instant appeal preferred under Section 21(4) of the National Investigation Agency Act, is directed against the order dated 17.12.2025 passed in Misc. Cri. Application No.2521 of 2025 (ATS Court Case-01/2024) by the learned Addl. Judicial CommissionerXVIII-cum-Special Judge CID/ATS, Ranchi, in connection with ATS P.S. Case No. 10 of 2023, registered for the offence under Sections 385/386/34 of the IPC and Sections 16/17/20/21 of the U.A.(P) Act, whereby and whereunder, the prayer for regular bail of the appellant has been rejected.

2. The prosecution version as per the brief as has been referred in the impugned order that on 20.07.2023 at about 15:00 hours, the Superintendent of Police, ATS, Jharkhand, Ranchi had received a secret information that the criminals of Aman Srivastava gang had extorted a huge amount of extortion money from coal businessmen and contractors by threatening to kil. them and they are coming to Ranchi through Bhurkunda-Patratu Road. A raiding team was formed on this information and reached the RanchiPatratu Ring Road and checked vehicles coming from the Patratu side. Meanwhile, a white color Scorpio vehicle was coming at a very high speed from Patratu-Pithoria side which was stopped by the raiding team and two persons traveling in the vehicle got very scared after seeing the police party and on being asked, they told their name as Ezaj Ansari and Minku Khan and it was stated that they are working for Aman Srivastava gang and has already been sent to jail in different cases related to Aman Srivastava Gang. On search, two mobile phones were recovered from the possession of the Ezaj Ansari and Minku Khan, apart from that a white colored bag containing a total cash amount of Rs. 49,83,000/- was recovered from beneath the rear seat of the said vehicle. On enquiry the accused persons have stated that the said amount was handed over to them by Surendra Bhuiyan, an associate of Ravi Sardar, and the money has to hand over to Jahir Ansari, Firoz Khan and Mahmud Alam @ Nepali near Alam Hospital, and the said money was collected as rangdari by Aman Srivastava gang from different traders.

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