( 2025:JHHC:34034 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6454 of 2025 Sanatan Singh, aged about 38 years, son of Prahlad Singh, resident of village Charchaka, P.O. and P.S. Dalbhumgarh, District-East Singhbhum, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Rakesh Kumar Sinha, Advocate For the State : Mr. Achinto Sen, A.P.P. 02/ 14.11.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Dhalbhumgarh P.S. Case No. 0037 of 2025, registered under sections 303(2)/317(2)/3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023 and sections 4/21 of Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act, 1957, under Rule 54 Jharkhand Miner Minerals Concession Rule, 2004 and Rules 7, 9, 13 of the Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017 pending in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Ghatshila. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is owner-cum- driver of tractor in question and allegation is made that 100 cft quartzite stone was loaded on the said tractor. He submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 18 of the petition. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioner may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegally the quartzite stone was carried out on the said tractor. 5. Considering that petitioner is owner-cum driver of tractor in ( 2025:JHHC:34034 ) question and he has no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 18 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Ghatshila, in connection with Dhalbhumgarh P.S. Case No. 0037 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.14.11.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-