2025:JHHC:33242 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6282 of 2025 1.Chandradeo Yadav @ Aniket Ranjan, aged about 48 years son of Manik Chand Yadav 2.Munna Yadav, aged about 38 years son of Munesh Yadav @ Bhunish Yadav 3.Bhusann Yadav @ Ajay Kumar Yadav, aged about 37 years son of Ram Prasad Yadav, All residents of Village Shahpur, PO and PS Kunda, District Chatra .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Anupam Anand, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Bishwambhar Shastri, Advocate ---- 2/06.11.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint Case PS Case No.231 of 2021, for offence registered under section 33(1)(c) of the Indian Forest Act, 1927, pending in court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that false allegations are made of cultivation of poppy plant in the forest area and he submits that even the land is not belonging to the petitioners and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.20 of the petition. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that illegally poppy plant has been cultivated in the land of the forest department. 5. Considering that allegation is made of cultivation of poppy plant in the forest land and even the land is not belonging to the petitioners and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents as aforesaid, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioners. 6. Accordingly, petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Complaint Case PS Case No.231 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 06.11.2025 SI/