2025:JHHC:23468 -1- A.B.A. No. 4366 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 4366 of 2025 ---- Kedar Sao @ Kedar Pd Gupta aged about 72 years son of Madho Sao, resident of Village Sajni, PO Jori, PS Bashistha Nagar, District Chatra .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State :- Mrs Ruby Pandey, Advocate ---- 2/13.08.2025 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.93 of 2024 for the offence registered under sections 33(1)(C) of Indian Forest Act, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that false allegations have been made of cultivation of opium in the forest area. He submits that even the land is not belonging to the petitioner and the petitioner has nothing to do with the alleged cultivation and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.15. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of cultivation of opium. 5. Considering that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent and even the land has been denied by the petitioner and the allegation is made that in forest area such cultivation was made and the case has been registered under section 33 of the Indian Forest Act and not under the NDPS Act, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today, and 2025:JHHC:23468 -2- A.B.A. No. 4366 of 2025 in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioner, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra in connection with Complaint Case No.93 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/