( 2025:JHHC:31263 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5886 of 2025 Yugal Ganjhu, aged about 32 years, son of Rati Ganjhu, resident of village- Induatola Budhisakhua, P.O. and P.S. Bariyatu, District-Latehar ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Nandan Prasad, Advocate For the State : Mr. Gautam Rakesh, A.P.P. 02/ 09.10.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Bariyatu P.S. Case No. 14 of 2025, registered under sections 15(c), 17(c), 18(b), 22, 25, 29 of the N.D.P.S. Act, pending in the Court of learned Sessions Judge-cum-special Judge (N.D.P.S.), Latehar. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that allegations are made of cultivation of poppy plaint in the forest area. He further submits that several persons have been made accused in the present case and 15 persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5251/2025, A.B.A. No. 4323/2025, A.B.A. No. 4562/2025, A.B.A. No. 4328/2025 and A.B.A. No. 5010/2025. He also submits that the petitioner has criminal antecedents. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the petitioner has criminal antecedents of identical nature. 5. In anticipatory bail and regular bail if criminal antecedent is there that is one of the consideration of granting anticipatory bail or regular bail however that cannot be only criteria of allowing and rejecting anticipatory bail and regular bail. ( 2025:JHHC:31263 ) 6. Considering that allegations are made that cultivation of poppy plant was being done in the forest area and several persons have been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.As. 7. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of her surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge-cum-special Judge (N.D.P.S.), Latehar, in connection with Bariyatu P.S. Case No. 14 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.09.10.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-