[ 2025:JHHC:35879] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6784 of 2025 Arshad Ali aged about 31 years, son of Late Anwar Ali, Resident of Village: Patagai, Post Office: & Police Station: Ghaghra, District: Gumla. ..... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Ritesh Kumar, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Someshwar Roy, A.P.P. ------ 03/ 01.12.2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Ghaghra P.S. Case No. 58 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 17(a), 21(a), 22(a) and 29 of the NDPS Act, pending in the court of learned Sessions Judge, Gumla. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the name of the petitioner has come on the basis of confessional statement of the apprehended co-accused. He submits that from the apprehended co-accused, 5.20 gms. of brown sugar was recovered. He next submits that in the year 2009, one case was registered against the petitioner with the allegation of making assault, however, in that case, the petitioner has been acquitted by the learned court. He then submits that the quantity of the brown sugar is intermediary. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the name of the petitioner has come on the confessional statement of the apprehended co-accused. 5. Considering that the name of the petitioner has come on the confessional statement of the apprehended co-accused, from them, 5.20 [ 2025:JHHC:35879] -2- gms. of brown sugar was recovered, which is intermediary in quantity and in one of the case, the petitioner has been acquitted by the learned court, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner, named above, is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of his surrender / arrest, the petitioner, named above, 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 Sessions Judge, Gumla, in connection with Ghaghra P.S. Case No. 58 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-01.12.2025 Amitesh/-