( 2025:JHHC:30153 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No. 8363 of 2025 ------ Rakesh Kumar Gupta @ Rakesh Gupta @ Munna Gupta, aged about 46 years, son of Radhey Shyam Gupta, Resident of Vrindavan Colony, Gol Building, P.O. and P.S. –Saraidhela, District –Dhanbad. … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ------ CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY ------ For the Petitioner : Mrs. Jasvindar Mazumdar, Advocate : Mr. Rohan Mazumdar, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Priya Shrestha, Spl. P.P. ------ Order No.02 Dated- 25.09.2025 Heard the parties. The petitioner has moved this Court for grant of bail in connection with Saraidhela P.S. Case No.159 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under sections 20(b)(ii) and 22 (b) of the N.D.P.S. Act, 1985. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the allegation against the petitioner is that the petitioner was involved in selling of Ganja illegally. It is further submitted that the allegations against the petitioner are all false and the 5 Kg. Ganja has been recovered from the shop of the co-accused –Shekhar Kumar Mahto @ Bablu and the only allegation against the petitioner is that the petitioner sold the said 5 Kg Ganja to Shekhar Kumar Mahto. It is then submitted that the petitioner has been acquitted in Seraidhela P.S. Case No. 215 of 2020 vide judgment dated 27.01.2022, the copy of which has been annexed as annexure -2 at page no. 34 onwards of the brief and except that the petitioner is not involved in any other case. It is next submitted that the petitioner has been in custody since 04.08.2025, as has been mentioned in paragraph no. 24 of the bail application. It is further submitted that the petitioner undertakes to cooperate with the trial of the case. Hence, it is submitted that the petitioner be admitted to bail. The learned Spl. P.P. opposes the prayer for bail. Considering the submissions of the counsels and the fact as discussed above, I am inclined to enlarge the above-named petitioner on bail. Accordingly, the petitioner is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Principal District & Sessions Judge, Dhanbad, in connection with Saraidhela P.S. Case No.159 of 2025 with the condition that the petitioner will co-operate with the trial of the case and will furnish his mobile number and photocopy of the Aadhar Card with an undertaking that he will not change his mobile number during the trial of the case. (Anil Kumar Choudhary, J.) 25.09.2025 Sonu-Gunjan/