( 2025:JHHC:36042 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 6824 of 2025 Hira Thakur, aged about 30 years, son of Khedan Thakur, resident of village- Kumhari, P.O. Pupunki Ashram and P.S. Chas (M), District-Bokaro ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Bandana Sinha, A.P.P. 02/ 02.12.2025: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Chas(M) P.S. Case No. 91 of 2025, registered under sections 274, 276 of BNS, 2023 and under section 47(a) and 55 of Jharkhand Excise Act, 1915 pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Bokaro. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the liquor in question has been recovered from the house of Babloo Pramanik and the said Babloo Pramanik has falsely stated that the said house has been rented to him by the petitioner. He further submits that the said house is not belonging to the petitioner. He next submits that petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 8 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 Babloo Pramanik from whose house liquor in question has been recovered. 5. Considering that liquor in question has been recovered from the house of Babloo Pramanik and Babloo Pramanik has stated that the said house has been rented to the petitioner though the said house of the ( 2025:JHHC:36042 ) petitioner is being denied by the learned counsel for the petitioner and further petitioner has got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 8 of the petition, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to 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 Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Bokaro, in connection with Chas(M) P.S. Case No. 91 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.02.12.2025 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-