2025:JHHC:26584 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5027 of 2025 ---- Niranjan Sharma @ Niranjan Kr. Sharma aged about 43 years son of Shivshran Sharma @ Shivcharan Sharma r/o Mihijam Main Road Village Kath Gola, PO and PS Mihijam District Jamtara .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Ashutosh Pd Joshi, Advocate For the State :- Mr. P.K.Chatterjee, Advocate ---- 2/02.09.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with O.C.R.Case No.99 of 2024 for offence registered under section 41, 42, 52 of Indian Forest Act, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Jamtara. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that allegations are made on the vehicle in question eleven pieces of pipal wood logs was being carried and sold the same. He submits that one Aziz Ansari @ Dhatura has been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.2052 of 2024. He submits that notification is there and in light of Annexure 5 the said tree logs are not prohibited to be carried from one place to another place. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that pipal logs were being carried on said vehicle and petitioner happened to be registered owner of the said vehicle. 5. In light of Annexure-5 it transpires that wood/logs of pipal tree is exempted from transportation from one place to another place as per Bihar Forest Produce Registered Trade Act, 1994 and the name of petitioner has come as petitioner is said to be owner of the vehicle in question however it is pointed out that same has been sold to another person, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner. 6. Accordingly, petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of his surrender/arrest, petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Jamtara, in connection with O.C.R.Case No.99 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/