2025:JHHC:32659 1 A.B.A. No. 6228 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6228 of 2025 ---- 1.Charan Singh Yadav aged about 56 years son of Rameshwar Dayal resident of Nagla PO and PS Barecha Dist. Etawah, State Uttar Pradesh 2.Ram Saran @ Chhete Lal aged about 56 yeas son of Babu Ram, resident of Chaksarai, PO and PS Anatram, District Auraiya, State Uttar Pradesh 3.Surya Pratap Singh @ Surya Chouhan aged about 35 years son of Surendra Pal Singh, resident of Chaksarai, PO and PS Anatram, District Auraiya, State -Uttar Pradesh .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Aniket Jaiswal, Advocate For the State :- Mr. P.D.Agarwal, Advocate ---- 2/30.10.2025 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Topchanchi PS Case No.140 of 2023, for offence registered under section 414/34 IPC, section 4/21 of Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, Rule 9/13 of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining, Transportation and Storage) Rules, pending in court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that the petitioners are the drivers of different trucks. He further submits that allegation is made that 25 to 35 tons of coal was being loaded on the trucks. He then submits that the coaccused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in ABA Nos.371 of 2024, 718 of 2024 and 716 of 2024 and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.19 of the petition. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that illegally the said coal was being loaded on the said trucks. 5. Considering that coaccused have been granted anticipatory bail as 2025:JHHC:32659 2 A.B.A. No. 6228 of 2025 aforesaid and the petitioners are happened to be drivers of three different 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad, in connection with Topchanchi PS Case No.140 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 30.10.2025 SI/