( 2025:JHHC:23452 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4349 of 2025 Mantu Yadav, aged about 29 years, son of Kedar Yadav, resident of village-Kudali Bari, Chakradharpur, P.O. and P.S. Chakradharpur, District- West Singhbhum, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Kumar Nishant, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Ruby Pandey, A.P.P 04/ 13.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Lawalong P.S. Case No. 34/2025, registered under sections 317(5), 3 (5) of BNS, 2023 and section 11 of Animal Cruelty Act, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is owner of the pick-up van and allegations are made that bovine animals were being carried on the said vehicle. He submits that petitioner was not present at the spot. He submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which has come in the impugned order. 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 are there of carrying bovine animals. 5. Considering that petitioner is owner of the pick-up van and he has no criminal antecedent which has come in the impugned order, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Lawalong P.S. Case No. 34/2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-