( 2025:JHHC:23201 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4324 of 2025 1. Shayamdeo Yadav @ Shyamdev Yadav @ Sanjay Yadav, aged about 63 years, son of Amrit Yadav 2. Malti Devi, aged about 41 years, wife of Shayamdeo Yadav @ Shyamdev Yadav @ Sanjay Yadav Both resident of village Jhardag, P.O. and P.S. Lawalong, District-Chatra ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Rohan Mazumdar, Advocate For the State : Mr. B.N. Ojha, A.P.P. 05/ 12.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending his arrest in connection with Lawalong P.S. Case No. 17 of 2025, registered under sections 18, 27(A), 28, 29 and 30 of NDPS Act and section 33 of Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of learned Principal District Judge, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent villagers and false allegation is made of doing cultivation of opium in the forest area. He submits that the said land is not belonging to the petitioners and petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 16 of the petition. He submits that there is no independent witness on the seizure list. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners 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 16 of the petition and the said land is not of the petitioners as denied by the petitioners and admittedly the said land is of Forest Department, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Principal District Judge, Chatra, in connection with Lawalong P.S. Case No. 17 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-