[2025:JHHC:29256] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5626 of 2025 Ravindra Yadav age 45 years old, son of Laxman Yadav, resident of village Babupur Bhakharpur, P.O. & P.S. Pirpainti, District Bhagalpur, Bihar. ..... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand. ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Sabyasanchi, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Subodh Kumar Dubey, A.P.P. ------ 05/ 22.09.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Mirzachouki P.S. Case No. 24 of 2025, registered for the offences under Sections 303(2) and 288 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Rule-4/54 of Jharkhand Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2004, Rule 7/9/13 of the Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017, pending in the court of learned Sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sahibganj. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegations are made against the petitioner of facilitating the poklanes machine, which have been used in illegal mining. He submits that the name of the petitioner has come on the basis of confessional statement of one Saheb Yadav. He further submits that the owner and driver of the vehicles in question have already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in A.B.A. Nos. 4977 and 4753 of 2025 by this court. He then submits that the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-12 of the petition. [2025:JHHC:29256] -2- 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of arranging the poklane machines for illegal mining. 5. Considering that owner and driver of the vehicles in question have already been provided the privilege of anticipatory bail in the aforementioned A.B.As. and only allegation against the petitioner is of facilitating the poklane machines and further the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-12 of the petition, I am inclined to provide the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today, and in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sahibganj, in connection with Mirzachouki P.S. Case No. 24 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-22.09.2025 Amitesh/-