2025:JHHC:28938 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5547 of 2025 1. Dhiru Ganjhu @ Dhrendra Ganjhu @ Dhirendra Ganjhu aged about 41 yrs. son of Sanichar Gajhu @ Harichandra Ganjhu, resident Village Tegam, P.O. & P.S. Kunda, District Chatra. 2. Afroj Ahmad @ Md. Afroz Ahmad aged about 35 yrs. son of Late Pyare Mian, resident Village - Dumarwar, P.O. & P.S. - Kunda, District Chatra …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Sushant Kumar Sinha, Advocate For the State : Mr. Vineet Kr. Vashistha, Spl. P.P. ------ 2/19.09.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioners and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.43 of 2021, for the alleged offences registered under Section 33 (C) of Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the Petitioners have been falsely implicated in this case and false allegations are made of cultivation of poppy plants in the forest area. He then submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 17 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of cultivation of poppy plants. 5. In view of the above and considering that even the land of the petitioners has been denied by them and the allegations are made that the poppy plants was cultivated in the forest area and that the 2025:JHHC:28938 2 petitioners have got no criminal antecedents, 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.43 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.) 19.09.2025 R.Kumar