2025:JHHC:26602 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5029 of 2025 ---- Dulli Yadav aged about 38 years son of late Budhan Mahto resident of Village Batkheta (Chaya) PO and PS Kunda Dist.Chatra .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Shravan Kumar, Advocate For the State :- Mr. B.N.Ojha, Advocate ---- 2/02.09.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.1145 of 2020, for offence registered under section 33 of Indian Forest Act, pending in court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that allegation is made of cultivation of poppy plants in forest area and even land is not belonging to the petitioner and petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 7. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that allegation is there of cultivation of poppy plants. 5. Considering that allegation of cultivation of poppy plants in forest area is there and even land is not belonging to the petitioner and petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 7, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Complaint Case No.1145 of 2020, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) SI/