2025:JHHC:25170 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4695 of 2025 ---- Pankaj Oraon aged about 25 years wife of Ballwahan Oraon R/o Village Bartoli PO Bargaon and PS Sissai District Gumla, Jharkhand .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Md Zafar Alam, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Shree Prakash Jha, Advocate ---- 2/25.08.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Palkot P.S. Case No.35 of 2025 , for offence registered under section 303(2), 317(2) of BNS, 2023, section 4/54 of Jharkhand Minor Minerals Concessions Rules, 2004, section 7/9 of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017 and section 21 () of Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, pending in court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gumla. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that petitioner is driver of the tractor in question and allegations are made that 100 cft sand was being loaded on the said tractor and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.14 of the petition. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that illegally 100 cft sand was being loaded on the said tractor. 5. Considering that petitioner is driver and he has got no criminal antecedent, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner. 6. Accordingly, petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of his surrender/arrest, petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gumla, in connection with Palkot P.S. Case No.35 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/,