1 A.B.A. No. 5978 of 2025 2025:JHHC:31591 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5978 of 2025 ---- Baldev Yadav aged about 46 years son of Amaru Yadav resident of Village Sijhua PO Bariyath PS Ichak District Hazaribagh .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Priyanka Agrawal, Advocate For the State :- Mr. P. D. Agarwal, Advocate ---- 2/13.10.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Ramgarh PS Case No.205 of 2025, for offence registered under section 271, 272, 274, 275, 351(2), 316(2), 318(2), 109(1) of BNS, 2023 read with Section 7 of E.C.Act, pending in court of learned SDJM, Ramgarh. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that the petitioner happened to be owner of the pickup van and she further submits that allegations are made that in the pickup van in the empty jar from the tanker of milk was being filled up, and water was being mixed up along with the milk. She then submits that E.C.Act is not attracted. She next submits that the owner of the hotel where the said tanker was parked has been granted anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge in ABP No.353 of 2025 and the anticipatory bail of the petitioner has been rejected by the learned Sessions Judge only on the ground of criminal antecedent. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that even the criminal antecedent is there and in view of that the learned Sessions Judge has rejected the bail petition of the petitioner. 5. Considering that same allegation is there against the another coaccused person who has been granted anticipatory bail by the learned 2 A.B.A. No. 5978 of 2025 Sessions Judge and there is no doubt that criminal antecedent can be one of the consideration in allowing or rejecting the anticipatory bail or the regular bail, however, that cannot be a sole criterion to reject or to allow the anticipatory bail or regular bail and the coaccused of same allegation has been granted anticipatory bail and prima facie as the E.C.Act is not attracted, 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 SDJM, Ramgarh, in connection with Ramgarh PS Case No.205 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 13.10.2025 SI/