( 2025:JHHC:38153 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 7274 of 2025 Sachidanand Paswan, aged abut 45 years, son of Dashrath Paswan, resident of village Tamge Khurd, P.O. Tamg Kala, P.S. Ranka, District-Garhwa ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Advocate Mrs. Neelam Kumari, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Ruby Pandey, A.P.P. 02/ 19.12.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Ranka P.S. Case No. 112 of 2025, registered under sections 316(2), 324(5) and 318(4) of BNS, 2023 pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Garhwa. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner happens to be labourer and allegations are made of demolishing the cow- shed constructed under MNREGA Scheme. He further submits that the contractor who has made construction, has been granted anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge in A.B.P. No. 618 of 2025. He then submits that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 14 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 allegations are there of demolishing the cow-shed made under MNREGA Scheme. 5. Considering that petitioner happens to be labourer and allegations are made of demolishing the chow-shed made under MNREGA ( 2025:JHHC:38153 ) Scheme, the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 14 of the petition and contractor who has made construction, has been granted anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge in A.B.P. No. 618 of 2025, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the above named, petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned court within four 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 Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Garhwa, in connection with Ranka P.S. Case No. 112 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.19.12.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-