( 2025:JHHC:23193 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4326 of 2025 Arjun Yadav @ Arjun Kumar, aged about 26 years, son of Latu Yadav, resident of village Jutha, P.O. Jori, Police Station-Bashisthanagar, District- Chatra ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Rajesh Kr. Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl. P.P. 06/ 12.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bashistanager P.S. Case No. 14 of 2022, registered under section 18 of the NDPS Act, and section 33 of Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of learned Sessions Judge, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a villager and false allegation is made of doing cultivation of poppy plants in the forest area. He submits that the said land is not belonging to the petitioner and the name of the petitioner has come on the disclosure made by the villagers however name of those persons are not disclosed in F.I.R. He submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 14 of the petition. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that allegation of cultivation of opium plant is there. 5. Considering that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 14 of the petition and the said land is not of the petitioner which has been denied by the petitioner and admittedly the said land is of Forest Department, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge, Chatra, in connection with Bashistanager P.S. Case No. 14 of 2022, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-