[2025:JHHC:28204] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5144 of 2025 Vikash Kumar Yadav @ Vikash Kumar aged about 22 years son of Chhatradhari Yadav, resident of village-Salagi, Alakdiha, P.O.+P.S.- Simariya, District- Chatra. ..... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Advocate. For the State : Mr. N.K. Ganjhu, A.P.P. ------ 04/ 15.09.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bariyatu P.S. Case No. 05 of 2025, registered for the offences under Sections 15(c), 17(C), 18(b) and 25 of the NDPS Act, pending in the court of learned Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge, NDPS, Latehar. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the false allegations are made against the petitioner of cultivating the opium plants in gairmazura land in different plots in the district of Latehar. He submits that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-16 of the petition. He further submits that in the similar circumstance, the other co- accused has already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5308 of 2025 by this court. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that allegations are there of cultivating the opium plants in gairmazura land. [2025:JHHC:28204] -2- 5. Considering that in the similar circumstance, the other co- accused has already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5308 of 2025 by this court and further the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-16 of the petition, I am inclined to provide the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 7. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today, and in the event of her surrender/arrest, the petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge, NDPS, Latehar, in connection with Bariyatu P.S. Case No. 05 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-15.09.2025 Amitesh/-