2025:JHHC:37370 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.7086 of 2025 Rajesh Kumar Yadav @ Rajesh Yadav aged about 35 years son of Sukar Yadav, resident of village Chandali P.O. and police station - Balumath, District - Latehar …. Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Bishambhar Shastri, APP ------ 2/12.12.2025 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 Tandwa P.S. Case No. 272 of 2024, registered under sections 317 (5), 3 (5) of Bhartiya Nayay Sanhita 2023, section 21 of Mines Minerals (Development of Regulation) Act and section 13 of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of illegal Mining Transportation and storage Rules 2017 and section 54 of Jharkhand Mines Minerals Concession Rules 2004, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegation is made that the petitioner along with Dhruv Kumar Singh has stored 8500 Cft. sand in the field of CCL. He next submits that Dhruv Kumar Singh is main culprit and he has been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.7737 of 2024. He further submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in 14 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and 2025:JHHC:37370 2 submits that petitioner is associate of Dhruv Kumar Singh. 5. Considering that the co-accused Dhruv Kumar Singh has been granted anticipatory bail in aforesaid ABA and it is pointed out that the petitioner is the associate of Dhruv Kumar Singh and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 14 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Tandwa P.S. case no. 272 of 2024, 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.) 12.12.2025 R.Kumar