2025:JHHC:14240 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 2864 of 2025 Chandan Kumar ….. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ….. Opposite Party ----- CORAM HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SHANKAR ----- For the Petitioner: Mr. Deepak Sahu For the State: Mr. N. K. Ganjhu, A.P.P ----- 02/27.05.2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. The petitioner apprehending his arrest in connection with the case registered under Sections 272/273/290 IPC and Section 47(A) of the Excise Act has prayed for grant of anticipatory bail. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case and has not committed any offence as alleged in the F.I.R. The name of the petitioner has been allegedly disclosed by the apprehended co-accused Ram Sipahi Mahato, from whose motorcycle 72 bottles of liquor were recovered. Co-accused Anil Yadav, whose name was also allegedly disclosed by the apprehended co-accused Ram Sipahi Mahato, has already been granted anticipatory bail by a Bench of this Court vide order dated 27.02.2025 passed in A.B.A. No. 4739/2024. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent as has been stated in paragraph 15 of the present anticipatory bail application. He however undertakes to cooperate in the ongoing investigation. Hence, he may be given the privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned A.P.P opposes the petitioner’s prayer for anticipatory bail. 5. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to enlarge the petitioner on anticipatory bail. Accordingly, the above named petitioner is directed to surrender before the concerned Court below within a period of three weeks. If he surrenders before the Court below within the aforesaid period, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail-bond of 2025:JHHC:14240 Rs.20,000/- (twenty thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the A.C.J.M, Sahibganj in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 30/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Satish/- (RAJESH SHANKAR, J)