( 2025:JHHC:27509 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 5239 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5239 of 2025 Chandramoleshwar Yadav, aged about 61 years, son of Nuneshwar Mahto, resident of village- Manikpur, P.O. Madhopur, P.S. Jasidih, District- Deoghar … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Sudhansu Kumar Deo, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl.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 Jasidih P.S. Case No.441 of 2022, registered for the offence under Sections 414/34 of the I.P.C., Section 21 of M.M.D.R. Act, 1957 and Rule 54 of J.M.M.C. Rules, 2004, pending in the Court of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Deoghar. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is the owner of the seized tractor and the allegations are made that the sand was illegally carried on the vehicle. He further submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 9 of this application. He also submits that two co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No.10231 of 2022. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that illegally the sand was being carried. 5. Considering that the petitioner is the owner of the tractor and he has got no criminal antecedent and two co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.A. and in the attending facts and ( 2025:JHHC:27509 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 5239 of 2025 circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Deoghar in connection with Jasidih P.S. Case No.441 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Ajay/