2025:JHHC:29409 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5406 of 2025 1. Suresh Paswan aged about 50 yrs. son of Ramotar Paswan, resident Village Jhanti, P.O. & P.S. Pratappur, District Chatra. 2. Ramji Paswan aged about 56 yrs. son of Bigan Paswan, resident Village Jhanti, P.O. & P.S. Pratappur, District Chatra. 3. Baudh Paswan aged about 58 yrs. son of Jagdev Paswan, resident Village Jhanti, P.O. & P.S. Pratappur, District Chatra …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Sushant Kr. Sinha, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Sweta Singh, A.P.P. ------ 2/23.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioners and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest for the alleged offences registered under Sections 33 (1)(c) Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Complaint Case No.238 of 2021. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the false allegations are made against the petitioners that the petitioners were ploughing the forest land for cultivating the poppy plants. He further submits that the petitioners have nothing to do with the said land and the lands are also not belonging to the petitioners. He then submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents as disclosed in para 17 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that there are allegations of ploughing the forest land for cultivating the poppy plants. 2025:JHHC:29409 2 5. In view of the above and considering that even the lands of the petitioners are being denied and the cultivation of the poppy plants alleged to be in forest area and that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners above named are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of their surrender / arrest, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Complaint Case No.238 of 2021, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 23.09.2025 R.Kumar