( 2025:JHHC:32225 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 6145 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6145 of 2025 1. Sachidanand Singh, aged about 37 years, son of Late Moktar Singh, resident of Village Badbigha, P.O. Dhangada, P.S. Tandwa, District- Chatra 2. Surendra Kumar, aged about 34 years, son of Jagarnath Das, resident of Village Dhawalpur, Kumrang Kala, P.O. & P.S. Tandwa, District- Chatra … Petitioners -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioners : Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Shailesh Kumar Sinha, A.P.P. ----- 03/17.10.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Tandwa P.S. Case No.172 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 317(5)/3(5) of the BNS, Section 21 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, Rule 13 of the Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining, Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017 and Rule 54 of the Jharkhand Mines Mineral Concession Rules, 2004, pending in the Court of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that petitioner no.1 is the owner and petitioner no.2 is the driver of the tractor in question. He further submits that the allegations are made that 100 cft. sand was loaded on the said vehicle. He then submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents, as disclosed in paragraph 17 of this application. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that illegally the sand was being carried. ( 2025:JHHC:32225 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 6145 of 2025 5. Considering that petitioner no.1 is the owner and petitioner no.2 is the driver of the tractor in question and they have got no criminal antecedents and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of their arrest or surrender, they will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra in connection with Tandwa P.S. Case No.172 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 17th October, 2025 Ajay/