( 2025:JHHC:38157 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 7271 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7271 of 2025 Chhotu Ganjhu, aged about 28 years, son of Devnath Ganjhu, resident of Village Giri Loharsi, P.O. & P.S. Pipratanr, District- Palamau … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Abhay Kumar Chaturvedy, Advocate For the State : Mr. Someshwar Roy, A.P.P. ----- 04/19.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Lawalong P.S. Case No.08 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 18, 27A, 28, 29, 30 of the NDPS Act and Section 33 of the Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of the learned Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge, NDPS Cases, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that false allegation is made of cultivation of poppy plant on the forest land. He further submits that even the land is not belonging to the petitioner. He next submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 13 of this application. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegation of cultivating poppy plant in the forest land is there against the petitioner. 5. Considering that the land is not belonging to the petitioner and that is of Forest Department and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 13 of this application and in the attending facts and ( 2025:JHHC:38157 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 7271 of 2025 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 four weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he shall 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 Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge, NDPS cases, Chatra in connection with Lawalong P.S. Case No.08 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: 19th December, 2025 Ajay/