2025:JHHC:18628 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3617 of 2025 Kaushalya Devi @ Kushila Devi, wife of Bijendra Yadav, @ Brijendra Yadav, resident of House No. 05, Gram Charka Kalan, Narayanpur, P.O and P.S. Chatra, Pratappur, District- Chatra, Jharkhand. ...... Petitioner(s). Versus The State of Jharkhand . … Opp. Party(s). ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Anup Kr. Agarwal, Advocate. For the State : Ms. Rubey Pandey, A.P.P. …..... 05/10.07.2025: This anticipatory bail application under Section(s) 482 and 484 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending her arrest for the offences registered under Section(s) 33, 41, 42 of Indian Forest Act. Heard the parties at length and had gone through the documents, annexed along with this application. Opportunity was given to the State to oppose the bail, which the State availed and opposed. The petitioner is a lady. It is alleged that in the forest, saw mill was being run in a clandestine manner. It is also alleged that a truck was also found there. The case of the prosecution that petitioner is the owner of the said truck. Since the petitioner is a lady and the truck is only registered in her name and the fact that the petitioner is not the owner of the said saw mill, I am inclined to allow this anticipatory bail application. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is directed to surrender before the court below within four weeks from today and in the event of her surrender/arrest, the court below is directed to enlarge her on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned SDJM, Chatra, in connection with UC Case No. 379 of 2017, subject to condition that one of the bailers should be close relative of the petitioner and other should be a resident of State of Jharkhand, having sufficient landed property in his/her name or in the name of his/her ancestors in which he/she is having share and to that effect, he/she has to file an affidavit before the Trial Court indicating his/her share in the property. Anu/-C.P.-3 (ANANDA SEN, J.)