2025:JHHC:34206 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.6467 of 2025 DHARMENDRA KUMAR, Aged about 25 years, Son of Yamuna Choudhary, resident of Village + P.O.-Islamnagar, P.S.-Chandradip, District-Jamui, Bihar. …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Manoj Kr. Sah, Advocate For the State : Mr. Jitendra Pandey, A.P.P. ------ 2/17.11.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioner and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Mahagama P.S. Case No. 61 of 2023, registered for the offences under sections 420, 272 & 273/34 of I.P.C and Section 47(a) & 55 of Excise Act, 1915, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Godda. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits petitioner was the owner of the Mahindra Xylo vehicle, where from 24 bottles of foreign liquor have been recovered. He then submits that the petitioner has sold the said vehicle to one Shailendar Kumar, due to illness of his mother and that fact has come in para 53 of the case diary. He also submits the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in Para 13 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that from the vehicle in question, liquor has been recovered. 5. In view of the above and considering that it has come in para 2025:JHHC:34206 2 53 of the case diary that the petitioner has informed the I.O. that he has sold the said vehicle to one Shailendar Kumar due to illness of his mother and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 13 of the petition; 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, Godda, in connection Mahagama P.S. Case No. 61 of 2023, 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.) 17.11.2025 R.Kumar