( 2025:JHHC:29267 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5636 of 2025 1. Ashish Sahu @ Ashish Kumar, aged about 26 years, son of Krishna Sahu, resident of village Silaphari, P.O. Khora, P.S. Gumla, District- Gumla, Jharkhand 2. Anil Sahu, aged about 21 years, son of Jitvahan Sahu, resident of village-Silaphari, Hundra Toli, P.O. Khora, P.S. Gumla, District-Gumla, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. K.S. Nanda, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Bandana Sinha, A.P.P. 02/ 22.09.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Gumla P.S. Case No. 193 of 2025, registered under sections 303(2), 317 (5) of BNS, 2023, Rule 4/54 of Jharkhand Minor Mineral Concession Rule, 2004, Rule 7/9 of the Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining Transportation & Storage) Rule, 2017, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gumla. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that false allegations are made against the petitioners of storing the sand in one of the plot. He further submits that the petitioners have nothing to do with the stored sand and they have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 12 of the petition. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegally the sand was being stored. 5. Considering that petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para which is disclosed in para 12 of the petition and even the stored sand is being denied by the petitioners, I am inclined to grant ( 2025:JHHC:29267 ) anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gumla, in connection with Gumla P.S. Case No. 193 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.22.09.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-