2025:JHHC:17486 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3479 of 2025 ----- Md. Imran Qureshi @ Md. Imran Kureshi, S/o Md. Madin Qureshi, r/o Village Bhadodih, P.O. & P.S.- Jhumritelaiya, District Koderma .... Petitioner(s). Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party(s). ------ CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Ashim Kr. Sahani, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl. P.P. …...... 02/ 02.07.2025: Heard, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. This is an application filed by the petitioner praying for grant of anticipatory bail in terms of under Sections 482 and 484 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Surksha Sanhita, 2023, apprehending his arrest for offences under Sections 12(1) and 12(3) of the Jharkhand Bovine Animals Prohibition of Slaughter Act, 2005 read with Sections 11(1)(d)(e) of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. 3. In a pickup vehicle some bulls were being transported. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is not the owner of the vehicle, but it has been shown that the vehicle was being run by this petitioner by virtue of an agreement. 5. The learned APP opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail and submits that petitioner has got three criminal antecedents and one of them is under Section 307 of IPC. 6. Considering the criminal antecedent of the petitioner, I find that this is not a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 7. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner in connection with Koderma P.S. Case No.54 of 2025, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma, stands rejected. Petitioner should appear before the Court concerned. 8. If the petitioner appears before the Court concerned, his case will be considered on its own merit, especially considering the overt act alleged against the petitioner and considering the status of other accused persons. (ANANDA SEN, J.) R.S./