( 2025:JHHC:23229 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4308 of 2025 Dhuneshwar Ganjhu, aged about 31 years, son of late Kameshwar Ganjhu, resident of Village- Shivpur, P.O. & P.S. Tandwa, District- Chatra … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Sushant Kumar Sinha, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sardhu Mahto, A.P.P. ----- 04/12.08.2025 The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Tandwa P.S. Case No.219/2024, registered for the offence under Sections 308(3), 303(2), 351(2), 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Chatra. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent. He submits that false allegations are made of threatening and extortion. He further submits that falsely the petitioner has been implicated in the present case. 3. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the petitioner is having three criminal antecedents of same nature. 4. It has come in the written complaint by the authorized signatory of RKTCL-BLAPPL (JV), Chhattisgarh that the petitioner is in habit of demanding extortion and rangdari, due to which, racks of coal are being delayed. It transpires that the petitioner is having three criminal antecedents and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Hence, his prayer for anticipatory bail is, hereby, rejected. 5. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Ajay/