2025:JHHC:38352 --1-- A.B.A. No. 7334 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7334 of 2025 ---- 1. Nankeshar Yadav @ Nandkehwar Yadav, aged 58 years, son of Karu Yadav 2. Lallu Yadav, aged 36 years, son of Karu Yadav 3. Amresh Yadav, aged 33 years, son of Karu Yadav 4. Uday @ Uday Bharti @ Uday Kumar, aged 30 years, son of Sohray Bhuiyan All are resident of village – Kargu Pater, PO – Barain, PS – Chatra, 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 :- Mr. Pranav Kumar, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Rakesh Ranjan, Advocate ---- 04/19.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.1130 of 2020, for the alleged offences registered under Section 33(i) of Indian Forest Act pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that false allegation is made against the petitioners of cultivation of poppy plant on the forest land. He further submits that even the land is not belonging to the petitioners. He then submits that the 2025:JHHC:38352 --2-- A.B.A. No. 7334 of 2025 petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.21 of the petition. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of cultivation of poppy plant on the forest land. 5. Considering that the land is not belonging to the petitioners and that is of the forest department and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.21 of the petition, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within four weeks from today, and in the event of their surrender/arrest, the 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 the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra in connection with Complaint Case No.1130 of 2020, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated 19.12.2025 Sangam/