2025:JHHC:28846 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5497 of 2025 1. Adit Yadav @ Ankit Yadav aged about 55 years son of Bigan Yadav 2. Aklesh Lohra aged about 42 years son of Naresh Lohra 3. Sikendra Urawan aged about 26 years, son of late Jagdeo Oraon 4. Pintu Kumar Sharma aged about 31 years son of Ramvrit Sharma 5. Bindu Yadav @ Binod Yadav, aged about 35 years son of Ramsharan Yadav Petitioner No.1 to 5 are resident of village Kharkdag, P.O. – Chak, Police Station Manatu, District- Palamau 6. Surendra Singh, aged about 21 years, son of Nanhaku Singh resident of village Garhgaon tola Dhankahi, P.O. and P.S. Manatu, District – Palamau …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Hadish Ansari, Advocate For the State : Mr. Pankaj Kumar, P.P. ------ 2/18.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioners and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Manatu P.S. Case No.3 of 2025, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 8B, 18(B), 29 of NDPS Act, pending in the Court of learned Special Judge, NDPS Act, Palamau. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the false allegations have been made against the petitioners of cultivating the opium plant in the forest area. He further submits that even the land is not belonging to these petitioners. He further submits that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent as disclosed in Para 13 of the petition. 4. Learned consul appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of cultivating the opium plant. 5. In view of the above and considering that the petitioner has no 2025:JHHC:28846 2 criminal antecedent and even the land of the petitioners is being denied by the petitioners and the allegations are made of cultivation of opium plant in the forest area, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners above named are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of their surrender / arrest, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Special Judge, NDPS Act, Palamau, in connection with Manatu P.S. Case No.3 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.) 18.09.2025 R.Kumar