( 2025:JHHC:25061 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 4653 of 2025 Rajesh Minz @ Rajesh Munda aged about 35 years, son of Bhagamati Minj, resident of village Kanabhitha, P.O. and P.S. Bero, District-Ranchi ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :A.C. to Mr. D.K. Chakraverty For the State : Mr. Ajay Kr. Pathak, Advocate 02/ 25.08.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bero P.S. Case No. 11 of 2025, NDPS Case No. 88 of 2025, registered under section 18 (C) of the N.D.P.S. Act, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate at Ranchi. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner false allegation of cultivation of opium plant is made. She submits that even the land is not belonging to the petitioner and the said land is of the Forest Department. She submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 11 of the petition. 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 allegation of cultivation of opium plant is there. 5. Considering that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 11 of the petition and even the land of the petitioner is being denied and the land is said to be of the Forest Department, 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 ( 2025:JHHC:25061 ) 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 at Ranchi, in connection with Bero P.S. Case No. 11 of 2025, NDPS Case No. 88 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-