2025:JHHC:23870 -1- A.B.A. No. 4381 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 4381 of 2025 ---- 1.Banful Ganjhu son of Jaijhan Ganjhu aged about 33 years 2.Manoj Ganjhu son of Bifai Ganjhu aged about 47 years Both are residents of Village Torar, PO, PS Chandwa and District Latehar, Jharkhand .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Shahid Yunus, Advocate For the State :- Mr. B.N.Ojha, Advocate ---- 2/13.08.2025 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Chandwa P.S. Case No.42 of 2025 for the offence registered under sections 18 of N.D.P.S. Act, pending in the court of learned Special Judge, N.D.P.S. Latehar. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that false allegation is made against the petitioners of cultivation of poppy plant and even the land was not belonging to the petitioners and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed paragraph no.6 of the petition which has also come in the impugned order. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that allegation of cultivation of poppy plant is there. 5. Considering that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed paragraph no.6 and the land in question has been denied by the petitioners, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, both the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today, and in the event of their surrender/arrest, the petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of 2025:JHHC:23870 -2- A.B.A. No. 4381 of 2025 Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Special Judge, N.D.P.S. Latehar in connection with Chandwa P.S. Case No.42 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/