( 2025:JHHC:37238 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 7008 of 2025 1. Niraj Kumar @ Niraj Kumar, son of Sidheshwar Sharma, aged about 44 years, resident of village Sultanpur, P.O. and P.S. Fatuha, District-patna 2. Manish Kumar son of Lakhan Rai, aged about 26 years, resident of village Rukunpura, P.O. and P.S. Fatuha, District-Patna ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Prashant Kr. Rahul, Advocate For the State : Mr. Vishwanath Roy, A.P.P. 02/ 11.12.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Balumath P.S. Case No.115 of 2025, registered under sections 303(2), 317 (5) of BNS and section 21 of MMDR and Rule 13 of JM(PIMTS) Rules, 2017, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Latehar. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 is owner and petitioner no.2 is driver of the hywa in question and allegations are made that 30 tonnes of coal was loaded on the said hywa. He further submits that petitioners have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 17 of the petition. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegally the coal was being carried on the said vehicle. 5. Considering that petitioner no.1 is owner and petitioner no.2 is driver of the hywa and they have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 17 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 ( 2025:JHHC:37238 ) 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Latehar, in connection with Balumath P.S. Case No.115 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.11.12.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-