( 2025:JHHC:23540 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4363 of 2025 1. Sadhu Bhandari @ Sadhu Charan Bhandari, aged about 30 years, son of Nimai Bhandari 2. Banej Kumar Bhandari, age about 32 years, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhandari All are residents of village-Jogita, Tola-Napit Tola, P.O. and P.S. Nirsa, District- Dhanbad. ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Gaurav Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Rajesh Kumar, A.P.P. 04/ 13.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Nirsa P.S. Case No. 109 of 2025, registered under sections 274, 275 of BNS, 2023 and Section 47 (a), 47(b), 52(d), 55 of Excise Act, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Dhanbad. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 10 of the petition and recovery of illegal liquor is from the house of one Vikash Sahani. He submits that the villagers have taken the name of the petitioners. 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 allegations are there. 5. Considering that petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 10 of the petition and recovery of illegal liquor is from the house of one Vikash Sahani, 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, Dhanbad, in connection with Nirsa P.S. Case No. 109 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-