2025:JHHC:19348 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3743 of 2025 ------ 1. Akhilesh Yadav, aged about 42 years, son of Binda Yadav, resident of House No.20. Sector 9/A, Khatal, P.O. and P.S. Bokaro Steel City, District Bokaro 2. Rahul Kumar, aged about 20 years, son of Shivdani Yadav, resident of Sector 9, Bada Khata, P.O. and P.S. Harla, District Bokaro .... .... …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .... .... .... Opposite Party CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners : Mr. Anikit Kumar, Advocate For the State : Ms. Lily Sahay, A.P.P. ------ 02/11.05.2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Dumri P.S. Case No. 13 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 303(2), 317(5), 210, 112 and 3(5) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Section 11(i),(A),(D)(F)(H)(k) of Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act, Section 13 of Jharkhand Bovine Animals (Prohibition of Slaughter) Act, 2005 and Sections 47(A)(B)(C), 49, 54(A)(B)(C) of Transportation of Animal Rules, 1978, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Giridih. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioner no.1 is owner and petitioner no.2 is driver of the truck and the allegations are there of carrying bovine animal on the said truck. He next submits that the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 13 of the petition. He further submits that on the valid documents, bovine animals were being carried. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that documents only with regard to nine animals have been shown however, 24 bulls were being carried. 5. Considering that the petitioner no.1 is the owner and petitioner no.2 is the driver and they are having no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 13 of the petition and the dispute is there that only documents of nine bulls have been shown however, 24 bulls were 2025:JHHC:19348 being carried, in the attending facts and circumstances, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned Court within two weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrenders, they shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Giridih, in connection with Dumri P.S. Case No. 13 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Anit Uploaded 14.05.2026