( 2025:JHHC:28148 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5294 of 2025 Dipak Kumar @ Deepak Kumar Yadav, aged about 27 years, son of Shivji Yadav, resident of Raj Ground, Bakrihat, P.O. and P.S. Jharia, District- Dhanbad ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. R.S. Mazumdar, Sr. Advocate For the State Mr. Pankaj Kumar, Spl.P.P. 02/ 15.09.2025: Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Jharia P.S. Case No. 204 of 2025, registered under sections 271, 272, 274, 275, 292, 318(4), 336(3), 338, 3(5) of BNS, 2023 and sections 47(a), 47(b), 47(c), 47(d), 47 (e), 47 (f) of Excise Act, pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad. 3. Learned senior counsel for the petitioner submits that allegations are made that illicit liquor was recovered from the house of Vijay Yadav and the name of the petitioner has come in the confessional statement. He submits that one criminal antecedent is there of the year, 2019. 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 the petitioner has criminal antecedent. 5. Considering that liquor in question has been recovered from the house of Vijay Yadav and the petitioner has received notice under section 35 (3) of Cr.P.C, in view of that the petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within two weeks from today and the learned court shall ( 2025:JHHC:28148 ) release the petitioner on terms and conditions and sureties as learned court deems fit and proper. 6. This anticipatory bail application is disposed of. Dt.15.09.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-