( 2025:JHHC:34196 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 6308 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6308 of 2025 Sudhir Kumar Singh @ Sudhir Singh, S/o Late Indar Dev Singh, aged about 65 years, R/o Village- Banasandi, P.O. & P.S. Simariya, District- Chatra … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Rahul Ranjan, Advocate For the State : Mr. Manoj Kumar Mishra, A.P.P. ----- 02/17.11.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Simariya P.S. Case No.97/2024, registered for the offence under Sections 471 of the IPC, Section 21 of the MMDR Act, Rules 4/54 of JMMCR and Section 13 of the JMPIMT and Storage Act, pending in the Court of the learned A.C.J.M., Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is neither the owner nor the driver of the hywa in question. He further submits that the allegations are made that on the hywa, stone chips were being carried. He then submits that the petitioner happened to be the lease holder of the mines and since the stone chips were loaded from his mines, he has been made accused. He next submits that the challan for carrying stone chips were issued in the month of March, 2025 and the allegations are there that the owner and driver of the hywa have manufactured the challan of later date. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that on the hywa illegally stone chips were being carried. ( 2025:JHHC:34196 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 6308 of 2025 5. Considering that the petitioner is neither the owner nor driver of the hywa in question and he happened to be the lease holder of the mines which has been fortified in light of Annexure-SA/1, which has been brought on record by way of filing supplementary affidavit and the allegation is made of manufacturing the date of challan against driver and owner of the vehcile 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 A.C.J.M., Chatra in connection with Simariya P.S. Case No.97/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 17th November, 2025 Ajay/