BAHADUR SAW ALIAS BAHADUR SAO v. THE STATE OFJHARKHAND
A.B.A./6412/2025 · 2025-11-12
Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
A.B.A. No. 6412 of 2025
1. Bahadur Saw @ Bahadur Sao, aged about 44 years, S/o Lakhi Saw
2. Suresh Saw, aged about 47 years, S/o Jagoo Saw,
Both are village-Chutiyaro, P.O., P.S. and District-Koderma.
..... … Petitioners
Versus State of Jharkhand
..... … Opposite Party
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CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Trishna Sagar, Advocate. For the State
: Mr. P.D. Agarwal, Spl.P.P. ------
03/ 12.11.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Spl.P.P. for the State.
2.
The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Koderma P.S. Case No. 155 of 2025, registered for the offences under Sections 223, 303(2) and 317(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, corresponding to Sections 188, 379 and 414 of the Indian Penal Code, Rule-4/54 of Jharkhand Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2004, Section 21 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, Rule 13 of the Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma.
3.
Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are happened to be the owners-cum-drivers of two different tractors and allegations are made that 100 CFT illegal sand was loaded on each of the tractor. He next submits that the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-11 of the petition.
4.
Learned Spl.P.P. for the State has opposed the prayer and
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submit that illegally the sand was loaded on the vehicles in question.
5.
Considering that the petitioners are the owners-cum-drivers of two different tractors and further the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-11 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners.
6.
Accordingly, the petitioners, named above, are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners, named above, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty-five thousand) each, with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma, in connection with Koderma P.S. Case No. 155 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-12.11.2025 Amitesh/-