( 2025:JHHC:24404 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4540 of 2025 Nagendra Singh, aged about 49 years, son of Janeshwar Singh, resident of Madhusudhan Colony, Road No. 5, Near ITI, Ghungharitand Chandanchoura, P.O. and P.S. Gaya, District-Bihar ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Ms. Anshu Kumari, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Lily Sahay, A.P.P. 02/ 20.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No. 112 of 2015, registered under sections 33 of the Indian Forest Act, under section 3A of Forest Conservation Act, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 10 of the petition. She submits that allegation is made that excavation of stone chips was being done. She submits that the petitioner has been implicated in this case only on the basis of suspicion and the petitioner has nothing to do with the stored stone chips. On these grounds, she submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegally stone chips were being stored. 5. Considering that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 10 of the petition and the name of the petitioner has come on the basis of statement of unknown villagers, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Chatra, in connection with Complaint Case No. 112 of 2015, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-