2025:JHHC:27051 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5090 of 2025 Raju Sao, aged about 35 years, son of Late Lekho Sao, resident of Village- Jaungi, P.O. & P.S. – Chandwara, District - Koderma …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Randhir Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Fahad Allam, A.P.P. ------ 4/08.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the Petitioner and learned APP appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.1200 of 2024, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 33, 41, 42 of Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 14 of the petition and the allegations are made that 70 pieces saal logs was loaded on the tractor. He submits that petitioner is nothing to do with the said saal logs and the tractor is also not of the petitioner and the name of the petitioner has been taken by some unknown persons. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are made of loading of saal logs. 5. In view of the above and considering that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, even the saal logs of the petitioner has been denied and the petitioner is neither the owner nor the driver of the 2025:JHHC:27051 2 tractor, the petitioner above named is directed to surrender before the learned Court within two weeks and the learned Court shall release the petitioner on such terms and condition or sureties, the learned Court may deem fit and proper. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) R.Kumar