2025:JHHC:26573 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5021 of 2025 Dinesh Sahu aged about 29 Years S/O Harinarayan Sahu R/O Village - Sogra P.O. & P.S.- Sisai District-Gumla (Jharkhand) …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. K.S. Nanda, Advocate For the State : Mr. Gautam Rakesh, A.P.P. ------ 4/01.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioner and learned APP appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Sisai P.S. Case No.70 of 2025, for the alleged offences registered under Sections under Sections 303(2)/317(5)/3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023, under Section 4/54 of Jharkhand Minor Minerals Concession Rule 2004, and under Section 7/9 of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rule, 2017, pending in the Court of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Gumla. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the driver of the tractor and the allegation is made that 100 CFT sand was loaded. He further submits that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in Para-8 of the petitioner. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that sand was illegally carried out. 5. In view of the above and considering that the petitioner has got 2025:JHHC:26573 2 no criminal antecedent as disclosed in Para-8 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner above named is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of his surrender / arrest, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Gumla, in connection with Sisai P.S. Case No.70 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) R.Kumar