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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
ABA No.5307 of 2025
1. Samod Yadav, aged bout 35 years, S/o Katan Yadav, R/o Alakdiha, P.O.-Jabra, P.S.-Simaria, District- Chatra, Jharkhand;
2. Santu Yadav, aged about 28 years, S/o Lurak Yadav, R/o Vill- Salgi, P.O. Jabra, P.S. Simaria, Jirua Khurd, District- Chatra, Jharkhand;
3. Bodhi Yadav @ Bodhi Gop, aged about 35 years, S/o Shankar Gop, R/o Village Salagi, Jirwakhurd, P.O.-Jabra, P.S.- Simaria, District- Chatra, Jharkhand.
…. Petitioners
Versus The State of Jharkhand
… Opp. Party
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CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Vishnu Prabhakar Pathak, Advocate For the State
: Mr. Bholat Nath Ojah, Spl. P.P. ------
4/12.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioners and learned APP appearing on behalf of the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Bariyatu P.S. Case No.07 of 2025, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 15(C), 17(C), 18(b) and 25 of NDPS Act, pending in the Court of learned Special Judge, NDPS, Latehar.
3.
Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 16. He further submits that false allegations of cultivating of poppy plants against the petitioners are made and the land is not belonging to the petitioners. He further submits that other co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.3025 of 2025.
4.
Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of cultivating the poppy plants.
5. In view of the above and considering that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent and other co-accused have been granted
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anticipatory bail and even the land is of the petitioners have been denied by them, 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, Latehar, in connection with Bariyatu P.S. Case No.07 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.) R.Kumar