2025:JHHC:37253 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.7039 of 2025 1. Uday Yadav@ Uday Ku. Yadav aged about 31 years son of Nemdhari Yadav, resident of Balumath, P.O. and P.S. Balumath, District Latehar. 2. Jitendra Bhuian aged about 30 years, son of Darshan Bhuian, resident of village Kekargarh, P.O. Dwarika, P.S. Panki, District Palamau. …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Ms. Tanu Kumari, Advocate For the State : Mr. Naveen Kr. Ganjhu, A.P.P. ------ 2/11.12.2025 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 N.D.P.S. Case No. 04 of 2025 arising out of Panki P.S. Case No. 12 of 2025, registered for the offence under sections 8B, 18B and 29 of the N.D.P.S. Act, pending in the court of learned Sessions Judge, Palamau at Daltonganj. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the false allegations are made against the petitioners of cultivation of poppy plants on forest land. She also submits that the land is not belonging to the petitioners. She next submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in Para 15 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that allegations are there of cultivation of poppy plants on the forest land. 5. Considering that the land is of the forest department and not 2025:JHHC:37253 2 belonging to the petitioners and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in Para 15 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 Sessions Judge, Palamau at Daltonganj, in connection with N.D.P.S. Case No. 04 of 2025 arising out of Panki P.S. Case No. 12 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.) 11.12.2025 R.Kumar