2025:JHHC:36783 1 A.B.A. No. 6907 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6907 of 2025 ---- 1.Jay Prakash Yadav, aged about 24 years, son of Sudrshan Yadav, resident of Harikishunpur PO and PS Buxar Dist.Buxar, State Bihar 2.Pradeep Kumar @ Pradip Kumar, aged about 25 years, son of Jangli Tanti, resident of Makanpurdeeh, Pank, PO and PS Kewti, Dist. Sheikhpura, State Bihar .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mrs Niharika Mazumdar, Advocate For the State :- Mr. V.K. Vashistha, Advocate ---- 2/08.12.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Siyaljori P.S. Case No.74 of 2025, for offence registered under section 316(2), 316(3), 61(2) of BNS, 2023, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Bokaro. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that petitioners happened to be drivers of two trucks on which TMT bar rods were loaded and being transported from ESL Steel Limited, Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro(BSL) to Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, BHEL, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh. He further submits that allegations are made that 5,350 kg and 5,370 kg materials were found shortage from two of the trucks. He submits that the petitioners are nothing to do with the said shortage and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent disclosed in paragraph no.13. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the said quantity was missing from the trucks and that was detected while materials were unloaded at their destination. 5. Considering that the petitioners are the drivers of the two of the 2025:JHHC:36783 2 A.B.A. No. 6907 of 2025 trucks and they have got no criminal antecedent and only allegation is made that said quantity was less in respective trucks, 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 Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Bokaro, in connection with Siyaljori P.S. Case No.74 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 08.12.2025 SI/