( 2025:JHHC:14260 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A.No. 2877 of 2025 ----- 1. Mantosh Kumar Yadav son of Amlesh Yadav aged about 25 years, resident of village Makaiyatanr, P.O. Balumath P.S. Balumath, District Latehar 2. Vinay Kumar son of Shambhu Yadav aged about 29 years, resident of village Chalki, P.O. Simariya, P.S. Simariya, District-Chatra 3. Sharwan Yadav @ Shravan Kumar Yadav @ Yugesh Yadav son of Rampati Yadav aged about 23 years, resident of village Makaiyatanr, P.O. Balumath, P.S. Balumath, District-Latehar 4. Alok Yadav @ Alok Kumar Yadav son of Lalit Yadav aged about 20 years, resident of village Makaiyatanr, P.O. Balumath, P.S. Balumath, District-Latehar ……… Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand ……… Opp. Party ----- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SHANKAR ----- For the Petitioners : Mr. Prashant Kumar Rahul, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Lily Sahay, A.P.P. ----- Order No.2 Date: 27.05.2025 1. The petitioners apprehending their arrest in connection with Balumath P.S. Case No. 265 of 2021 for the offences punishable under Sections 414, 420, 467, 468, 471/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 30 (ii) of the Coal Mines Act and 21 MMDR Act, 13 JM (PIMTS) Rules, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Latehar, has prayed for grant of anticipatory bail. 2. Learned Counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the present case and have not committed any offence as alleged. The petitioners have not been named in the F.I.R. They have no concern with the vehicle from which the alleged recovery of about 27 tonnes of illegal coal. The co-accused Rajkishore Sinha @ 2 Raja has already been granted anticipatory bail by a Bench of this Court vide order dated 7th March, 2024 passed in A.B.A.No. 4575 of 2023. The petitioners have no criminal antecedent as has been stated in para 17 of the anticipatory bail application. They, however, undertake to co- operate in the ongoing investigation. Hence, they may be given the privilege of anticipatory bail. 3. Learned A.P.P. opposes the petitioners’ prayer for grant of anticipatory bail. 4. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and considering the material available on record, I am inclined to enlarge the petitioners on anticipatory bail. 5. Accordingly, the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the court below within three weeks from today, shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/-(Rupees Twenty Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Latehar in connection with Balumath P.S. Case No. 265 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Rajesh Shankar, J.) P.K.S.