( 2025:JHHC:24850 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4639 of 2025 Shashi Shekhar, aged about 38 years, son of Parmeshwar Dubey, resident of Larongo, P.O. & P.S. Puso, Dist.- Gumla (Jharkhand) … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Kumar Nishant, Advocate For the State : Mr. Subodh Kumar Dubey, A.P.P. ----- 02/22.08.2025 The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Puso P.S. Case No.04/2025, registered for the offence under Section 303(2) of the BNS, 2023, Rule 54 of the JMMC Rules, 2004 and Rule 13 of the JMMT Rules, and Section 21 of the MMDR Act, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Gumla. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the owner of the JCB machine and the allegations are made that sand was being loaded on the Hywa. He submits that the JCB machine was hired and the owner cum driver of the said Hywa has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.3040 of 2025. He further submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 11 of this application. 3. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the JCB machine was being used for loading of the sand. 4. Considering that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent and one co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail and the said JCB machine was hired by someone and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 5. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Gumla in connection with Puso P.S. Case No.04/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Ajay/