( 2025:JHHC:22020 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4136 of 2025 Charku Mahto @ Bishwanath Manjhi @ Charku Manjhi, aged about 28 years, son of Somra Manjhi, resident of village-Kounsi, P.O. Badam, P.S. Barkagaon, District-Hazaribagh, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Santosh Kumar Soni, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl. P.P ……….. 05/ 06.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Barkagaon P.S Case No. 93/2021, registered under sections 414, 34 of the I.P.C. Rule 54 of JMMC Rules, Section 30(ii) of Coal Mines Act and Section 33 of the Indian Forest Act., pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Hazaribagh. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in identical situation co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No. 4773/2022 and A.B.A. No. 4912/2022 vide order dated 20.07.2022 and 21.07.2022 respectively. He submits that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 11 of the petition. 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 the allegations are there of transportation of illegal mines. 5. Considering that co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No. 4773/2022 and A.B.A. No. 4912/2022 vide order dated 20.07.2022 and 21.07.2022 respectively and the petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 11 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the petitioner above named, 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 Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Hazaribagh, in connection with Barkagaon P.S Case No. 93/2021, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-