2025:JHHC:38175 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.7288 of 2025 Sharwan Munda, aged about 27 years, Son of Pushu Munda, Resident of Village- Gowali, P.O & P.S.- Sonahatu, District - Ranchi (Jharkhand)- 835204 …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Sankalp Goswami, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kr. Chatterjee, Spl. P.P. ------ 2/19.12.2025 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 Complaint Case No.-28946/2025 dated 25.08.2025, for offences committed under Sections 4, 21 of the Mines and Minerals Regulation and Development Act, 1957, r/w Rule 54 of Jharkhand Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2004, r/w Rule 9, 11 of the Jharkhand Minerals Prevention of Illegal Mining, Transportation, and Storage Rules, 2017, pending in the Court of Learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ranchi. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that petitioner is the driver of the tractor in question, in which sand is loaded. He further submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in Para 12 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that illegally sand was being carried. 5. Considering that petitioner is the driver of the tractor in question and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as 2025:JHHC:38175 2 aforesaid; 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ranchi in connection with Complaint Case No.-28946/2025 subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 19.12.2025 R.Kumar