2025:JHHC:26992 --1-- A.B.A. No. 5068 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5068 of 2025 ---- 1. Sujit Ganjhu, S/o – Balku Ganjhu, aged about 30 years, 2. Foreshtar Ganjhu, S/o – Mohan Ganjhu, aged about 47 years Both are resident of village – Torar, PO – Hutap, PS – Chandwa, District – Latehar, Jharkhand .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Shahid Yunus, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Bhola Nath Ojha, Advocate ---- 02/08.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Chandwa P.S. Case No.42 of 2025, for the alleged offences registered under Section 18 of NDPS Act pending in the Court of learned Special Judge, NDPS, Latehar. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the false allegations are made of cultivation of opium in the alleged land. He submits that in identical situation two of the co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.4381 of 2025. He submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.06 of the petition. He further submits that even the land is not of the petitioners. 2025:JHHC:26992 --2-- A.B.A. No. 5068 of 2025 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the allegations are made of cultivating the opium in the alleged land. 5. Considering that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.6 of the petition and the petitioners have denied the cultivation on the alleged land and in identical situation two of the co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.4381 of 2025, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the event of their surrender/arrest, the petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Special Judge, NDPS, Latehar in connection with Chandwa P.S. Case No.42 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Sangam/