( 2025:JHHC:27490 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 5238 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5238 of 2025 1. Moso Mundu, aged about 32 years, son of Late Gunday Mundu, resident of Village- Sardiri, P.O. & P.S. Bandgaon, District- West Singhbhum, Jharkhand 2. Ramsay Bandu Soy, aged about 23 years, son of Hari Singh Munda, resident of Katui Tola-Gopal, Birbanki, P.O. & P.S. Khunti, District- Khunti, Jharkhand … Petitioners -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioners : Mr. Rajesh Ranjan Srivastav, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agrawal, Spl.P.P. ----- 02/10.09.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Bandgaon P.S. Case No.09/2025, registered for the offence under Sections 8(b)/18 of N.D.P.S. Act, pending in the Court of the learned Sessions Judge, West Singhbhum at Chaibasa. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are villagers and false allegations are made against them of cultivating opium. He submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents, as disclosed in paragraph 8 of this application. He further submits that even the land in question where cultivation has been made, is not belonging to the petitioners. He also submits that petitioner no.2 is the resident of Khunti and he has visited the in-laws house at Bandhgaon in the district of West Singhbhum. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of cultivating opium. ( 2025:JHHC:27490 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 5238 of 2025 5. Considering that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents and even the land where cultivation was made, is not belonging to the petitioners and petitioner no.2 is not said to be the resident of Bandgaon, District- West Singhbhum and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of their arrest or surrender, they will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge, West Singhbhum at Chaibasa in connection with Bandgaon P.S. Case No.09/2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Ajay/