( 2025:JHHC:24604 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4598 of 2025 1. Uday Prasad Dangi @ Uday Kumar Dangi, aged about 42 years, son of Bali Mahto 2. Pappu Kumar Dangi, aged about 35 years, son of Rajdeo Dangi Both are residents of village Aurugerua, P.O. and P.S. Hunterganj, District- Chatra ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mrs. Sadhna Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl.P.P. 04/ 21.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Hunterganj P.S. Case No. 93/2025, registered under sections 317(5), 3 (5) of BNS, 2023, under section 4/21 of MMDR Act and under Rule 54 Jharkhand Minor Minerals Concession Rule, 2004, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are driver of tractor in question and allegation is made that 100 cft illegal sand was loaded on the said tractor. She submits that petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 8 of the petition. On these grounds, she submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegal sand was loaded on the said tractors. 5. Considering that petitioners are driver of tractor in question and they have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 8 of the petition, 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 Hunterganj P.S. Case No. 93/2025, in connection with Hunterganj P.S. Case No. 93/2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-