2025:JHHC:37393 --1-- A.B.A. No. 7097 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 7097 of 2025 ---- Balbind Bind @ Balwan Bind, aged about 37 years, son of Mohan bind, resident of Beldari Tola, PO and PS – Dumri, District – Giridih, Jharkhand .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Sumit Prakash, Advocate :- Mr. Manish Yadav, Advocate For the State :- Mrs. Anuradha Sahay, Advocate ---- 04/12.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Dumri P.S. Case No.118 of 2024, for the alleged offences registered under Sections 292 and 275 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 47(a) of Excise Act pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Giridih. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner runs a hotel in Dumri, Giridih and it has been alleged that in the said hotel 13 liters foreign liquor of different brands and four liters Mahuwa liquor was kept which has been recovered. He further submits that the petitioner earns his livelihood by way of running the hotel. He then submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.08 of the petition. 2025:JHHC:37393 --2-- A.B.A. No. 7097 of 2025 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposes the prayer and submits that from the hotel in question the said recovery has been made. 5. Considering that the petitioner happened to be the owner of the said hotel and he earns his livelihood by way of running the said hotel and the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph No.08 of the petition, I am inclined to provide anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today, and in the event of his surrender/arrest, the petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Giridih in connection with Dumri P.S. Case No.118 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated 12.12.2025 Sangam/