( 2025:JHHC:23183 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4328 of 2025 Pintu Keshari @ Pintu Kumar Keshari aged about 43 years, son of Bhola Saw, resident of village Balubhang, P.O. Balubhang, P.S. Bariyatu, District- Laterhar ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Arup Kr. Dey, A.P.P. 03/ 12.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bariyatu P.S. Case No. 14 of 2025, registered under sections 15(c), 17(c), 18(b), 22, 25 and 29 of the N.D.P.S. Act pending in the Court of learned Special Judge, N.D.P.S. at Latehar. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner including 37 persons are named in F.I.R. on the allegation that they were doing cultivation of poppy on the gairmajrua and forest land. He submits that petitioner has no concern with the said cultivation of opium. He submits that the petitioner is innocent villager and the said land is not of the petitioner. 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 that allegation of cultivation of opium is there. 5. Considering that petitioner including 37 persons are named in F.I.R. the alleged land of the petitioner that is denied by the petitioner 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 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 petitioners 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 Special Judge, N.D.P.S. at Latehar, in connection with Bariyatu P.S. Case No. 14 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-