( 2025:JHHC:36726 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6894 of 2025 Parasu Ram Mahto, aged about 68 years, son of Sahaju Mahto, resident of village Chatambari, P.O. Tutkinawadih, P.S. Silli, District-Ranchi ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Prasenjit Mahato, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agrawal, Spl.P.P. 02/ 08.12.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Silli P.S. Case No.77/2025, registered under sections 274 and 275 B.N.S. and section 47(a) of the Excise Act, pending in the Court of learned Sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Ranchi. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegations are made that 15 liters of country made liquor and 300 KG of Jawa Mahuwa have been recovered from a hut and the petitioner is nothing to do with the said hut and the name of the petitioner has come on the basis of the information furnished by one Chuakidar and even the name of the said chaukidar has not been disclosed in the FIR. He further submits that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 6 of the petition and co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.6340 of 2025. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the said recovery has been made from hut. 5. In view of the above and considering that the recovery has been made from hut, the petitioner is nothing to do with the said hut and even the name of the chaukidar, who has taken the name of the petitioner has not ( 2025:JHHC:36726 ) been disclosed in the FIR, petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 6 of the petition and co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.6340 of 2025, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the petitioner above named is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from the date of receipt of the order and on the event of his surrender / arrest, he shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty-Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount of each to the satisfaction of learned Sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Ranchi, in connection with Silli P.S. Case No.77/2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Dt.08.12.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-