2025:JHHC:23793 --1-- A.B.A. No. 4427 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4427 of 2025 ---- Raju Munda aged about 42 years son of Sukra Munda, resident of village-Hudur Hendegir, P.O. Hendegir, P.S. Keredari, District- Hazaribagh. .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Arun Kumar, Advocate For the State :- Mrs. Priya Shrestha, A.P.P. ---- 02/14.08.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Keredari P.S. Case No. 22 of 2025, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 18/25A/27/28/29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, pending in the Court of learned Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge NDPS Act, Hazaribag. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case and the allegation is made of cultivating the opium in the forest area. He further submits that even the land does not belong to the petitioner and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no. 14 of the petition. Moreover, the petitioner is earning his livelihood by way of doing the daily wage work. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer 2025:JHHC:23793 --2-- A.B.A. No. 4427 of 2025 and submits that name of the petitioner has come on the confession of the co-accused. 5. Considering the fact that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no. 14 of the petition and it is pointed out that the petitioner is earning his livelihood by way of daily wages work and even the land has been denied of the petitioner, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge NDPS Act, Hazaribag in connection with Keredari P.S. Case No. 22 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Rashmi/