( 2025:JHHC:27322 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5184 of 2025 Bhola Kumar, aged about 65 years, son of Arjun Mehta, resident of village Maheshpur, P.O. and P.S. Domchanch, District-Koderma ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Randhir Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee,, A.P.P. 02/ 09.09.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Nawalsahi P.S. Case No. 57 of 2025, registered under sections 303(2), 317(2) of BNS, 2023, Rule 13 of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017 and Rule 54 of Jharkhand Miner Minerals Concessions (JMMC), Rule, 2004, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Koderma. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is driver of hywa vehicle and allegation is made that 600 cft stone boulder was loaded on the said vehicle. He submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 15 of the petition. He submits that owner of the said vehicle has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 4993 of 2025. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegally stone boulder was being carried out on the said vehicle. 5. Considering that petitioner is driver of hywa vehicle having no criminal antecedent and the owner of the said vehicle has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 4993 of 2025, I am inclined to grant ( 2025:JHHC:27322 ) anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Koderma, in connection with Nawalsahi P.S. Case No. 57 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-