2025:JHHC:31354 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.5917 of 2025 Naresh Yadav, aged about 41 years, son of Kishun Dev Rai, resident of village Chandrahiya, P.O. Motihari, P.S. – Motihari (Muffasil) District Mothari, (East Champaran (Bihar) …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Sudhir Kr. Roy. Advocate For the State : Mr. Rakesh Ranjan, A.P.P. ------ 2/10.10.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioner and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest for the alleged offences registered under Sections 292, 274, 275 of BNS and Section 47A of Excise Act, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Giridih in connection with Bagodar P.S. Case No.56 of 2025. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner happened to be the driver of the truck, in which English liquor was being carried. He further submits that the said liquor was carried on the instruction of the person, who has hired the truck. He further submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in Para 9 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that illegally the English liquor was being carried out in the said truck. 5. In view of the above and considering that the petitioner is the driver of the truck and the English liquor was being carried on the instruction of the person, who has hired the truck and that the 2025:JHHC:31354 2 petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner above named is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of his surrender / arrest, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Giridih in connection with Bagodar P.S. Case No.56 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 10.10.2025 R.Kumar