2025:JHHC:14284 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 2900 of 2025 Md. Raju ….. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ….. Opposite Party ----- CORAM HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SHANKAR ----- For the Petitioner: Mr. Naveen Kumar For the State: Mr. S. K. Tiwari, Spl. P.P ----- 02/29.05.2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. The petitioner apprehending his arrest in connection with the case registered under Sections 303(2), 317(5) & 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 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. He is the owner-cum-driver of the Pickup van bearing registration No. JH10AF2103 from which the parts of stolen RMU machine were found. It is further submitted that the said vehicle is a commercial vehicle. Otherwise also, it cannot be said that the articles found in the said vehicle were the stolen ones. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent as has been stated in paragraph 13 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 Spl. 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 Rs.20,000/- (twenty thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to 2025:JHHC:14284 the satisfaction of the Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Dhanbad in connection with Baliapur P.S. Case No. 196/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Satish/- (RAJESH SHANKAR, J)