2025:JHHC:22233 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3911 of 2025 ---- 1.Deepak Kumar Pandey, aged about 47 years son of Shanker Pandey resident of A-5, The Pride Apartment, Behind L.I.C Building Near Bus Stand, Jay Prakash Nagar, Gali No.1, P.O. Bartand, P.S Dhanbad, District Dhanbad, Jharkhand 2.Ranjan Kumar, aged about 30 years son of Sadhu Yadav, resident of Village Jagdishpur, PO Jagdishpur, PS Sikandra, District Majui, Bihar .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand …… .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. A. R. Kumar, Advocate For the State :- Mr. P. K. Chatterjee, Advocate ---- 03/07.08.2025 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned counsel for the respondent -State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Barhi P.S. Case No.98 of 2025, for the offence registered under section 317(5)/ 3(5) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 30(ii) of the Coal Mines Act and Section 33 of Indian Forest Act, pending in the court of learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, at Hazaribagh. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioner no.1 is the owner and the petitioner no.2 is driver of one of the vehicles against which the FIR has been registered. He submits that the owner of another vehicle has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.4027 of 2025. He submits that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.12. 4. Mr. Chatterjee, the learned counsel for the respondent State has opposed the prayer and submits that illegally the coal was being transported in the vehicle in question. 5. Considering that the co-accused, who is the owner of another vehicle, has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.4027 of 2025 and the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.12, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, 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 Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, at Hazaribagh, in connection with Barhi P.S. Case No.98 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS). ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/