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2025:JHHC:38123
--1-- A.B.A. No. 7250 of 2025
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI
A.B.A. No. 7250 of 2025
---- Aman Anand, aged about 45 years, C/o Ravi Shanker Singh, R/o 411, Boreya Road, near Khabar Mantra, Nagradhipa, Chiraundi, Morabadi, PO and PS – Morabadi, District – Ranchi, Jharkhand
.... Petitioner -- Versus --
The State of Jharkhand
.... Opposite Party
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CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
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For the Petitioner :- Mr. Rupesh Kumar, Advocate
For the State
:- Mr. Rakesh Kr. Sinha, Advocate
---- 02/18.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State.
2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bariatu P.S. Case No.263 of 2025, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 20(b)(ii)(B) and 25 of NDPS Act pending in the Court of learned Judicial Commissioner, Ranchi.
3.
Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegations are made that from the house of the petitioner 1.300 kilograms Ganja was recovered and 500 grams from another place from the same house. He further submits that both the quantities are intermediary. He then submits that many labourers were working there as the construction work was going on. He next submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.15 of the petition.
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4.
Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that from the house of the petitioner the said recovery has been made.
5. Considering that the said recovery is intermediary in quantity and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.15 of the petition, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Commissioner, Ranchi in connection with Bariatu P.S. Case No.263 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated 18.12.2025 Sangam/