( 2025:JHHC:36946 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6966 of 2025 Mahendra Yadav, aged about 41 years, son of Hemraj Yadav, resident of village Manikpur, P.O. Madhopur, P.S. Jasidih, District-Deoghar, (Jharkhand) ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Sudhansu Kr. Deo, Advocate For the State : Mr. Pankaj Kumar, Spl. P.P. 02/ 09.12.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Deoghar Town P.S. Case No. 454 of 2022, registered under section 20(b) (ii) (A) of N.D.P.S. Act pending in the Court of learned Principal District and Sessions Judge, Deoghar. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that no incriminating article has been recovered from the possession of the petitioner however, intermediary contraband was recovered from one Dinesh Sah and he has taken the name of the petitioner. He further submits that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 9 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 the name of the petitioner has been taken by the apprehended accused. 5. Considering that name of the petitioner has been taken in the confessional statement of apprehended accused, recovered contraband is intermediary and petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 9 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to ( 2025:JHHC:36946 ) 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 Principal District and Sessions Judge, Deoghar, in connection with Deoghar Town P.S. Case No. 454 of 2022, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.09.12.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-