2025:JHHC:35858 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI ABA No.6759 of 2025 1. Santosh Paswan aged about 37 yrs. son of Lala Paswan, resident of village Sijuwa, P.O. Jogiyara, P.S. - Pratappur, District Chatra. 2. Sitaram Paswan aged about 44 yrs. son of Pati Dusadh @ Pati Paswan, resident of village Sijuwa, P.O. Jogiyara, P.S. Pratappur, District - Chatra. 3. Manoj Saw @ Manoj Kumar Saw aged about 39 years son of Mahendra Saw, resident of village Sijuwa, P.O. Jogiyara, P.S. - Pratappur, District - Chatra. …. Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party -------- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Sushant Kumar Sinha, Advocate For the State : Mr. Fahad Allam, Advocate ------ 2/01.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of Petitioners and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint Case No. 1150/2021, registered under section 33 (1)(c) Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that false allegations are made against the petitioners of cultivating the poppy plants in the forest area. He then submits that the land is not of the petitioners. He next submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in para 17 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that allegations of cultivation of poppy plants are there. 5. Considering that the land is not of the petitioners and the allegations are made of cultivation of poppy plants on the forest land and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent, I am inclined to 2025:JHHC:35858 2 grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners above named are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of their surrender / arrest, they shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Complaint Case No. 1150/2021, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 7. This Anticipatory Bail Application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 01.12.2025 R.Kumar