( 2025:JHHC:33797 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6416 of 2025 Umesh Sonar @ Umesh Kumar, aged about 33 years, son of Dhaneshwar Swarnkar, resident of village Gawan, P.O. Gawan, P.S. Gawan, District- Ramgarh ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. B.K. Dubey, Advocate For the State : Mr. Tarun Kumar, A.P.P. 04/ 12.11.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Rajrappa P.S. Case No. 138 of 2025, registered under sections 15(C) and 25 of the NDPS, Act, pending in the Court of learned Sessions Judge, Ramgarh. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that name of the petitioner has come in the confessional statement of the driver of the pick- up van. He further submits that nothing incriminating article has been recovered from the possession of the petitioner or place of the petitioner. He also submits that the owner of the pick-up van has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5306 of 2025. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that from the pick-up van 480.27 kg doda was recovered. 5. Considering that allegations are made that from the pick-up van 480.27 kg doda was recovered, the owner of the pick-up van has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 5306 of 2025, the name of the petitioner has come in the confessional statement of the driver of the pick- up van and nothing incriminating article has been recovered from the possession of the petitioner or place of the petitioner. ( 2025:JHHC:33797 ) 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge, Ramgarh, in connection with Rajrappa P.S. Case No. 138 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.12.11.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-