IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 589 of 2025 ------ 1. Kishore Saw, aged about 38 years, son of Bodhi Saw, resident of Village-Barkatha, P.O. & P.S.-Barkatha, Dist.- Hazaribag 2. Vijay Saw, aged about 39 years, son of Jamuna Saw, resident of Village-Kawalu, P.O. & P.S.-Barkatha, Dist.- Hazaribag 3. Baleshwar Nayak @ Baleshwar Saw, aged about 52 years, son of Kali Saw, resident of Village-Barkatha, P.O. & P.S.- Barkatha, Dist.-Hazaribag 4. Dhaneshwar Saw, aged about 32 years, son of Jamuna Saw, resident of Village-Kewalu, P.O. & P.S.-Barkatha, Dist.-Hazaribag … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ------ CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Awanikant Prasad, Advocate For the State : Mr. P.K. Chatterjee, Spl. P.P. ------ Order No.02 Dated- 28.01.2025 Heard the parties. Apprehending their arrest, the petitioners have moved this Court for grant of privilege of anticipatory bail in connection with G (F) Case No. 60 of 2017 registered under sections 33 of the Indian Forest Act. The Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the allegation against the petitioners is that the petitioners were involved in excavating of stones by digging the forest land causing loss of Rs.2,50,000/- to the forest department. It is further submitted that the allegations against the petitioners are all false and the petitioners have no concern with the alleged stones. It is next submitted that the petitioners are ready and willing to jointly deposit Rs.2,50,000/- with the D.F.O., Hazaribagh West without prejudice to their defence in this case. It is then submitted that the petitioners undertake to cooperate with the trial of the case and further undertake that they will not enter into any forest area during the pendency of the case. Hence, it is submitted that the petitioners be given the privilege of anticipatory bail. Learned Spl. P.P. opposes the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail. Considering the submissions of the counsels and the fact as discussed above, I am of the opinion that it is a fit case where the abovenamed petitioners be given the privilege of anticipatory bail. Hence, in the event of their arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of this order, they shall be released on bail on showing the proof of jointly depositing Rs.2,50,000/- with the D.F.O., Hazaribagh West without prejudice to their defence in this case and on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Hazaribagh, in connection with G (F) Case No. 60 of 2017 with the condition that the petitioners will co-operate with the trial of the case with further condition that they will not enter into any forest area during the pendency of the case and further conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Anil Kumar Choudhary, J.) Sonu/Gunjan-