2025:JHHC:29497 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5418 of 2025 Jitendra Saw @ Jitend Saw …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Randhir Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Fahad Allam, A.P.P. ------ 2/23.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioner and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest for the alleged offences registered under Sections 274, 275, 3(5) of BNS, 2023 and Section 47(a) of Excise Act, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma, in connection with Domchanch P.S. Case No.60 of 2025. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that false allegations have been made of recovery of foreign liquor from the house of the petitioner. He further submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para-12 of the petition and even in the seizure list, the name of the petitioner is not there and only the village name is disclosed. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that there is allegation of storing the foreign liquor in the house. 5. Looking into the contents of the seizure list, it transpires that the name of the petitioner has not come and only the name of village Mahatadih has been disclosed and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 2025:JHHC:29497 2 6. Accordingly, the petitioner above named is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of his surrender / arrest, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma, in connection with Domchanch P.S. Case No.60 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.) 23.09.2025 R.Kumar