( 2025:JHHC:25735 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4891 of 2025 Manjit Toppo, aged about 31 years, son of Jityanus Toppo, Resident of Tati, Post Office and Police Station-Dumri, District-Gumla, State Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Ritesh Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Sunil Kumar Dubey, A.P.P. 04/ 28.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Chainpur P.S. Case No. 22 of 2025, registered under sections 303(2)/317(5)/3(5) of BNS, 2023, under Rule 4/54 Jharkhand Miner Minerals Concession Rule, 2004, Rule 7/9 of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017 pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Gumla. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is driver of tractor in question and allegation is made that 100 cft sand was loaded on the said tractor. He submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 16 of the petition. On these grounds, he 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 sand was being carried out on the said tractor. 5. Considering that petitioner is a driver of tractor in question and he has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 16 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within ( 2025:JHHC:25735 ) 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, Gumla, in connection with Chainpur P.S. Case No. 22 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-