[2025:JHHC:25593] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4850 of 2025 1. Sanjay Birhor @ Sanjay Kumar aged about 36 Years son of Lalu Birhor, resident of Village Sikidag Post office & Police Station Lawalong, District Chatra, 2. Chandrika Ganjhu @ Tannu Ganjhu aged about 36 Years son of Kamal Ganjhu @ Kamaldeo Ganjhu, resident of Village Katiya, Post office & Police Station Lawalong, District Chatra, Jharkhand. ..... … Petitioners Versus State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Manish Yadav, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Gautam Rakesh, A.P.P. ------ 03/ 27.08.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Bashista Nagar P.S. Case No. 08 of 2023, registered for the offences under Sections 18, 27(a), 28 and 29 of N.D.P.S. Act, pending in the court of learned Principal District Judge, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that it has been alleged that the petitioners are involved in cultivation of poppy plants in the forest area, however, petitioners are nothing to do with the same. He submits that the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-13 of the petition. He further submits that the similarly situated six other co- accused have already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 2137 of 2025 by the co-ordinate bench of this court. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there against the petitioners [2025:JHHC:25593] -2- of cultivating the poppy plants. 5. Considering that the similarly situated six other co-accused has already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 2137 of 2025 by the co-ordinate bench of this court and the area is said to be of the forest department and the cultivation of the poppy plants has been denied by the petitioners and further they are having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para- 13 of the petition, I am inclined to provide privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, named above, are hereby directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today, and in the event of their surrender/arrest, the petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Principal District Judge, Chatra, in connection with Bashista Nagar P.S. Case No. 08 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Amitesh/-