2025:JHHC:14377 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No.2957 of 2025 ---- 1. Karu Modi @ Karu Prasad Barnwal @ Karu Barnwal, aged about 50 years, S/o- Lokhanlal Barnwal. 2. Niraj Kumar, aged about 22 years, S/o – Karu Modi @ Karu Barnwal, both are R/o Village – Kewta, P.O.+P.S.- Tisri, District – Giridih (Jharkhand) …. …. Petitioner(s) Versus The State of Jharkhand …. …. Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK ROSHAN For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Ayub Ansari, Adv. For the State : Mrs. Anuradha Sahay, A.P.P. ---- 02/Dated: 03rd June, 2025 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner(s) and learned counsel for the State. 2. The present application has been filed for grant of anticipatory bail in connection with Complaint Case No.3190 of 2024, registered for the offences under Sections 47(a), 47(c) and 55 of the Excise Act, pending in the court of learned J.M.- 1st Class, Giridih. 3. Innocence has been claimed by the learned counsel for the petitioner(s) and undertaking has been given for co-operating with the investigating agency and participation in the trial. It has been submitted that the main accused from which possession the spirit was recovered, is Upendra Sao not these petitioners. Further, nothing has been seized from their conscious possession and they have been named in this case on the basis of statement made by the villagers due to personal enmity. On the above basis, prayer for anticipatory bail has been made. 4. Learned counsel for the State has opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail. 5. Considering the nature of allegation and material available on record, the petitioner(s) are granted privilege of anticipatory bail. Hence, in the event of their arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of this order, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand Only) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned J.M.-1st Class, Giridih, in connection with Complaint Case No.3190 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Deepak Roshan, J.) Amar/- Uploaded