( 2025:JHHC:31521 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 5951 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5951 of 2025 Rajiv Kumar Singh, aged about 54 years, son of Late Dharnath Singh, resident of Village- Basantpur, P.O. & P.S. Pirpainti, District- Bhagalpur, State- Bihar … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Raja Ravi Shekhar Singh, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Rubey Pandey, A.P.P. ----- 03/13.10.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Sahibganj (M) P.S. Case No.67 of 2022, registered for the offence under Sections 379/414 of the Indian Penal Code, under Section 21(A)/21(6) of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 and under Section 4/54 of the JMMR Act and Rule 7/9 of Jharkhand Mineral (Prevention of Illegal Minging, Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017 pending in the Court of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sahibganj. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is happened to be the crusher owner. He further submits that the allegations are made that the crusher was illegally being run. He further submits that in the said FIR, several crusher owners have been made accused and in identical situation, one of the co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in A.B.A. No.7462 of 2022. He then submits that other co-accused have also been granted anticipatory bail. He next submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 9 of this application. ( 2025:JHHC:31521 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 5951 of 2025 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are made that illegal run of crusher. 5. Considering that co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sahibganj in connection with Sahibganj (M) P.S. Case No.67 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 13th October, 2025 Ajay/