2025:JHHC:19883 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3828 of 2025 Surendra Gope, S/o Charan Gope, R/o Village Jirhul, P.O. Datia, P.S. Bharno, District- Gumla, Jharkhand, at present R/o Lalgutuwa, P.O. & P.S. Nagri, District- Ranchi Jharkhand .... Petitioner(s). Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party(s). …… CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Mohit Prakash, Advocate For the State : Mr. V.S. Sahay, AddI. P.P. …...... 05/ 21.07.2025: Defect(s) as pointed by the Office is ignored for the present. 2. Heard, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 3. This is an application filed by the petitioner praying for grant of anticipatory bail in terms of under Sections 482 and 484 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Surksha Sanhita, 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending his arrest for offences under Sections 317(5) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and Section 47A of Excise Act. 4. Petitioner is the driver of commercial vehicle bearing registration No.JH01EX 6405 which was transporting 2040 bottles of foreign liquor illegally. 5. Considering this transportation of illegal liquor, which is being done by the petitioner being the driver of the vehicle, I find that this is not a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner in connection with Vidhan Sabha P.S. Case No.46 of 2024, pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ranchi, stands rejected. (ANANDA SEN, J.) R.S./