2025:JHHC:28418 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5396 of 2025 ---- Sonu Kumar Singh @ Sikandar Kumar Singh @ Sonu Singh @ Sikandra Singh aged about 38 years son of Bhagwan Singh, resident of Village Jarangdih, Uppar Bangla, PO and PS Bermo, District Bokaro.... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... ……………Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Ms Pinki Kumari, Advocate For the State :- Ms Kumari Rashmi, Advocate ---- 2/16.09.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bokaro Thermal P.S. Case No.43 of 2025, for offence registered under section 303(2), 317(5), 3(5) of BNS, 2023 Section Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulatiojn) Act, 1957, Section 7, 13 of Jharkhand Mines (Prevention of Illegal Mining, Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Bermo at Tenughat. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that 70 tons of illegal coal has been accumulated near Water Tank at Jaridih. He submits that the petitioner has nothing to do with said storage of coal and the name of the petitioner has come in the disclosure made by some unknown person. He submits that petitioner has got one criminal antecedent, however, in that case he has been granted bail. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that that allegations are there of accumulating 70 tons of coal. 5. Considering that said storage of such coal has been denied by the petitioner and it has been pointed out that even the name of that person who has disclosed the name of the petitioner has not been disclosed in the FIR, 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 Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Bermo at Tenughat, in connection with Bokaro Thermal P.S. Case No.43 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 16th Sept., 2025 SI/