( 2025:JHHC:23248 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 4313 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4313 of 2025 Ram Kumar Mehta, aged about 38 years, S/o Braj Kumar Mahto, R/o Vill. Jamune, P.O. Rajwadih, P.S. Daltonganj, Dist.-Palamu (Jharkhand) … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Akhouri Sankalp, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sunil Kumar Dubey, A.P.P. ----- 06/12.08.2025 The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Sadar P.S. Case No.07/2025, registered for the offence under Sections 323, 303(2), 317(2), 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Section 21 of Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, Rule 54 of Jharkhand Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2004 and Rule 13(i) of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining, Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017, pending in the Court of the learned C.J.M., Daltonganj. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the owner cum driver of the tractor in question. He submits that the allegations are made that 100 CFT sand was loaded on the said vehicle. He further submits that co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No.1832 of 2025. He also submits that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 6. 3. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that illegally the sand was being carried in the said vehicle. 4. Considering that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent and co- accused have been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.A. and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the ( 2025:JHHC:23248 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 4313 of 2025 privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 5. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned C.J.M., Daltonganj in connection with Sadar P.S. Case No. 07/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Ajay/