RANCHI, India, April 9 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on March 9:
1. This bail application has been filed under Sections 483 & 484 of BNSS, 2023 wherein, prayer has been made for grant of bail as he is in custody for allegedly committing offence punishable under Sections 25(1-b)a/ 26/35 of Arms Act.
2. Heard, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the State and have also gone through the impugned order.
3. Learned A.P.P. opposes the prayer for bail.
4. This case is related to recovery of arms.
5. From the record, it is apparent that the petitioner is named on the basis of confessional statement of co-accused. Arms were recovered from house of the co-accused, who disclosed that this petitioner gave him the same to keep.
6. Considering the fact that the petitioner is implicated only on the basis of the confessional statement of co-accused and nothing has been recovered, 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, Khunti in connection with Khunti Police Station Case No.105 of 2025 subject to the condition that one of the bailors should be a close relative of the petitioner, having sufficient landed property in his own name within the State of Jharkhand with a further condition that the petitioner shall appear and mark his attendance before the Registrar, Civil Court, Khunti once in a month till the disposal of the trial.
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