( 2025:JHHC:23303 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4275 of 2025 1. Ramesh Prasad Singh, aged about 51 years, son of Rama Nand Singh, resident of village Dhandua, P.O. and P.S. Jandaha, District-Vaishali, Bihar 2. Rajesh Kumar, aged about 34 years son of Munir Lal, Resident of Parsahar, P.O. and P.S. Dhankatta, District-Sant Kabir Nagar (Uttar Pradesh) ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Bishambhar Shastri, A.P.P. 04/ 12.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Sukhdeo Nagar P.S. Case No. 317 of 2025, registered under sections 318(2), 338, 336 (3), 340 (2), 308(3), 3 (5), 111 (2) (b) of B.N.S, 2023 and sections 30 and 35 of Arms Act, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Ranchi. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are retired C.R.P.F. personnel and they have gone to the house of Sandeep Thapa @ Sandeep Pradhan where they stayed for negotiation of marriage of daughter of the petitioner no.1. He submits that rifle in question was kept in the house of Sandeep Thapa @ Sandeep Pradhan and the said rifle was licensee one and the licence was also produced and this fact has been stated in F.I.R. itself. He submits that petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 11 of the petition. He submits that there is no violation of sections 30 and 35 of Arms Act. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the house of Sandeep Thapa @ Sandeep Pradhan was raided where rifle has been recovered. 5. Considering that petitioners are retired C.R.P.F. personnel and licence of the rifle was produced which is stated in F.I.R. as well as in the impugned order and the petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 11 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Ranchi, in connection with Sukhdeo Nagar P.S. Case No. 317 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-