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( 2025:JHHC:22698 )
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI
---- B.A. No. 6783 of 2025
---- Ranjan Bhaitha, age 31 years, son of Shiv Balak Baitha, resident of Dhawan Nagar, P.O. Gandhi Nagar, P.S. Gonda, District-Ranchi, Jharkhand
….. Petitioner -- Versus --
The State of Jharkhand …... Opposite Party
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CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
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For the Petitioner :- Mr. Rahul Pandey, Advocate (through V.C.)
For the State : Mrs. Priya Shrestha, Spl. P.P.
04/08.08.2025 :- Heard learned counsel for the petitioner through V.C. and
learned counsel for the State.
2. The petitioner is seeking regular bail in connection with Gonda P.S. Case No. 63/2025(N), registered under sections 111(2), (b), 111 (3) of BNS and also under section 21(B)/22/29 of the NDPS Act, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Commissioner-cum-Special Judge, NDPS at Ranchi.
3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner through Video Conferencing submits that the petitioner is in custody since 16.05.2025 and the co-accused persons have been granted regular bail in B.A. No. 5768/2025 and B.A. No. 6329/2025. He submits that recovery is of 13.82 gram brown sugar which is intermediary.
4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that intermediary is not question in a case arising out of brown sugar.
5. Considering that the petitioner is in custody since 16.05.2025 and the co-accused persons have been granted regular bail in aforesaid bail applications and recovery of brown sugar which is intermediary, I am inclined to grant regular bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, shall be released on regular bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Commissioner-cum- Special Judge, NDPS at Ranchi, in connection with Gonda P.S. Case No. 63/2025(N).
( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.)
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