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2025 DAILYLAW 21796 (JHR)

MD ZAHEER v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND

A.B.A./4706/2025 · 2025-08-25

Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi

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2025:JHHC:25191 --1-- A.B.A. No. 4706 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4706 of 2025 ---- Md. Zaheer aged about 39 years, S/o Jalil Miyan, R/o Dhadhu, PO – Baisadon, PS and District – Latehar, Ranchi, Jharkhand .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Shadab Eqbal, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agrawal, Advocate ---- 04/25.08.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Balumath P.S. Case No.23 of 2020, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 379, 406, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of Indian Penal Code pending in the Court of learned CJM, Latehar. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that there are 50 accused persons in the FIR and the petitioner is the broker of the truck and it is alleged that Ashok Yadav in conspiracy with his brother Mukesh Kumar Yadav and others fraudulently diverted 40 trucks of coal between 28.11.2019 and 04.01.2020. He further submits that in identical situation Ashok Kumar @ Ashok Kumar Yadav and Mukesh Kumar Yadav @ Mukesh Kumar have already been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.739 of 2021 and 666 of 2021 respectively. 2025:JHHC:25191 --2-- A.B.A. No. 4706 of 2025 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of not reaching the truck to the destination. 5. Looking into the contents of the FIR it transpires that the allegations are there upon one Ashok Yadav and his brother Mukesh Yadav and they have been granted anticipatory bail by co-ordinate Bench of this Court and the petitioner is said to be the broker of truck. In the attending facts and circumstances of this case, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Latehar in connection with Balumath P.S. Case No.23 of 2020, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Sangam/