( 2025:JHHC:31343 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 5907 of 2025 Sunil Prasad Yadav, aged about 42 years, son of Ram Prasad Yadav, resident of village-Jaisinghadih, P.O. and P.S. Mohanpur, District-Deoghar, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Pramod Kr. Jha, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Bandana Sinha, A.P.P. 02/ 10.10.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Mohanpur P.S. Case No. 175 of 2025, registered under sections 274 and 275 of BNS, 2023 and Section 47(a) of Jharkhand Excise Act, pending in the Court of learned S.D.J.M, Deoghar. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is owner of the vehicle bearing Registration No. JH-15AK-1070 and allegations are made that in the said vehicle 114 bottles of foreign liquor were being carried. He further submits that the vehicle was being driven by the driver. 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 in the impugned order it has come that petitioner has criminal antecedent. 5. The criminal antecedent can be one of the consideration in allowing or rejecting the anticipatory bail or regular bail however, that cannot be sole ground either for allowing or rejecting the anticipatory bail or regular bail. 5. Considering that petitioner is owner of the vehicle in question ( 2025:JHHC:31343 ) and the said vehicle was driven by the driver, 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 his 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 S.D.J.M, Deoghar, in connection with Mohanpur P.S. Case No. 175 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.10.10.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-