2025:JHHC:38108 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 7246 of 2025 ---- Ajit Kumar, aged about 25 years son of Nandkishor Sahu resident of Village Kumranga Kurd PO Kasiyadih PS Tandwa District Chatra, Jharkhand .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. A.K. Chaturvedi, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Bishwambhar Shastri, Advocate ---- 2/18.12.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Simariya PS Case No.126 of 2022, for offence registered under section 379, 414, 467, 468, 471, 120B IPC and section 30(II) of Coal Mines Act, pending in court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that petitioner is not named in the FIR and in course of the investigation name of the petitioner was taken by one of the coaccused person. He further submits that petitioner has nothing to do with the coal in question as well as the Hywa in question and the allegations are made that on the Hywa the said coal was loaded. He further submits that coaccused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in ABA Nos.2082 of 2023 and 2094 of 2023 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that name of petitioner has come during investigation. 2025:JHHC:38108 2 5. Considering that petitioner is not named in the FIR and in course of the investigation name of the petitioner was taken by one of the coaccused person and the petitioner is neither the owner nor driver of said vehicle and said coal of the petitioner has been denied and the coaccused persons have been granted anticipatory bail as aforesaid, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner. 6. Accordingly, petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of his surrender/arrest, petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Simariya PS Case No.126 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 18.12.2025 SI/