( 2025:JHHC:34611 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6531 of 2025 1. Naresh Yadav, aged about 30 years, son of Govind Yadav, resident of village Dalkoma, Post Office Pandeypura, P.S. and District-Chatra 2. Ramesh Bharti, aged about 45 years, son of Jatu Bharti, resident of village Dhebo, P.O. and P.S. Hunterganj, District-Chatra, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Manish Yadav, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl.P.P. 02/ 20.11.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Bashistanagar P.S. Case No. 58 of 2025, registered under sections 317(5)/3(5) of BNS, 2023, under section 21 of Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act, 1957, under Rule 54 Jharkhand Minor Minerals Concession Rule, 2004, under Rule 13 of Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017 pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioners are driver of different hyva vehicles and allegations are made that 600 cft stone chips was loaded on each of the vehicle. He submits that petitioners have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 14 of the petition. He also submits that co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. Nos. 5997/2025 and 6044 of 2025. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegally stone chips was loaded on the said hyva vehicles. 5. Considering that petitioners are driver of different hyva vehicles, ( 2025:JHHC:34611 ) they have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 14 of the petition and co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.As, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chatra, in connection with Bashistanagar P.S. Case No. 58 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.20.11.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-