( 2025:JHHC:23709 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4320 of 2025 Anuj Kumar, , aged about 57 years, son of late Bindeshwari Prasad Mehta, resident of village Mangura, P.O. Kariatpur, P.s. Ichak, District-Hazaribagh (Jharkhand) ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. R.S. Mazumdar, Sr. Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agrawal, Spl. P.P. 03/ 14.08.2025: Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Drugs & Cosmetics Case bearing No. 03 of 2021, registered under sections 18(c), 27(b) (ii) and 27(d) of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, pending in the court of learned Additional Sessions Judge-II, Hazaribagh. 3. Learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that earlier petitioner has moved in A.B.A. No. 8931 of 2023 which has been rejected by order dated 16.04.2024. He further submits that the petitioner was having licence and petitioner has already faced the pendency of this criminal case in view of that in the change circumstances, the petitioner may kindly be provided the privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agrawal, learned counsel for the State submits that allegation is there and there is no changed circumstance. 5. Considering that earlier anticipatory bail of the petitioner has been rejected on the ground that in the year, 2017 itself the license was expired and the petitioner has not taken any step and the case was registered in the year, 2021 and for about four years, in absence of any license the shop was being operated and in view of that the said anticipatory bail has been rejected and the same situation is still there and thus there is no changed circumstance and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, his prayer for anticipatory bail is hereby rejected. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-