2025:JHHC:38015 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.7201 of 2025 1. Mithlesh Yadav @ Mithlesh Kumar Yadav, aged about 26 years son of Raghu Yadav @ Rajesh Yadav. 2. Arjun Yadav, aged about 44 years son of Late Etwar Yadav @ Etwar Mahto 3. Mukesh Yadav @ Mukesh Kumar aged about 38 years son of Ramlal Yadav All are residents of village Tanku P.O. Pindra, police station - Bashistanagar, District – Chatra …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agarwal, Spl. P.P. ------ 2/18.12.2025 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. 44 of 2025, registered under sections 33 (1) (C) of Indian Forest Act, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that false allegation of cultivation of poppy plants is made against the petitioners. He further submits that the land is not belonging to the petitioner. He next submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 13 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that allegation of cultivation of poppy plants is there in the forest land. 5. Considering that the land is not belonging to the petitioners and the land is of the forest department and the petitioners have got no 2025:JHHC:38015 2 criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 13 of the petition. 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Complaint Case No. 44 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 18.12.2025 R.Kumar