( 2025:JHHC:27528 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5248 of 2025 Rajendra Kumar Yadav, aged about 35 years, son of Badri Yadav, resident of Jugudhi, P.O. and P.S. Itkhori, District-Chatra, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Shailesh Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Shweta Singh, A.P.P. 02/ 10.09.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Ithkhori P.S. Case No. 59 of 2025, registered under sections 303(2), 317(5), 3(5) of BNS, 2023 and under section 4, 21 of MMDR Act, 4 and 54 of JMMCR Act, pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is owner-cum-driver of the tractor in question and allegation is made that 100 cft sand was loaded on the said tractor. He submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 13 of the petition and one of the owner of another seized vehicle has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 4646/2025. 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 sand was being carried out on the said tractor. 5. Considering that petitioner is owner-cum-driver of the tractor in question, he has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 13 of the petition and one of the owner of another seized vehicle has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 4646/2025, I am inclined to grant anticipatory ( 2025:JHHC:27528 ) 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Ithkhori P.S. Case No. 59 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-