( 2025:JHHC:29621 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5667 of 2025 1. Ashish Yadav, aged about 33 years, son of Jivlal Yadav 2. Jitendra Yadav, aged about 41 years, son of Rajkumar Yadav 3. Sunil Kumar Yadav, aged about 32 years, son of Bhuneshwar Yadav 4. Sanjay Kumar Yadav, aged about 33 years, son of Basudev Yadav 5. Anil Rana @ Harendra Rana, aged about 41 years, son of Jagdish Rana, All resident of village Petadiri, P.O. and P.S. Mayurhand, District-Chatra ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mrs. Neeharika Mazumdar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, A.P.P. 02/ 24.09.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Mayurhand P.S. Case No. 33 of 2025, registered under sections 303(2), 317(5), 3 (5) of BNS, 2023, section 4/21 of Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act, 1957, under Rule 4/54 Jharkhand Minor Minerals Concession Rule, 2004, Rule 7/9/13 of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that allegations are made that on the tractor sand has been loaded however the petitioners are neither driver nor owner of the tractor and they are nothing to do with the said sand and tractor and their name has come in the statement of villagers. She further submits that petitioners have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 15 of the petition. On these grounds, she submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits ( 2025:JHHC:29621 ) that allegations are there of illegally carrying coal on the tractor. 5. Considering that petitioners are neither driver nor owner of the tractor, their name has come in the statement of villagers and they have no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 15 of the petition, I am inclined to grant 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 Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Palamau, in connection with Mayurhand P.S. Case No. 33 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.24.09.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-