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( 2025:JHHC:35305 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 6651 of 2025
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
A.B.A. No. 6651 of 2025
Fajir Alam, aged about 30 years, son of Samsul Ansari, resident of village- Dhanbari, Murbhanga, P.O. & P.S. Dumka, District- Dumka (Jharkhand)
… Petitioner
-Versus- The State of Jharkhand
… Opposite Party
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CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
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For the Petitioner : Ms. Vidhika Saboo, Advocate For the State
: Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl.P.P.
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02/26.11.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State.
2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Shikaripara P.S. Case No.03 of 2019, registered for the offence under Sections 414 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and under Section 33 of Indian Forest Act, 1927, pending in the Court of the learned A.C.J.M., Dumka.
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Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegations are made that on motorcycle 300 Kgs. of coal was being carried. She further submits that the said motorcycle has already been sold by the petitioner to one Sohrab Ansari on 13.11.2018, whereas, the present occurrence is dated 04.01.2019. She then submits that however the said transfer was made on agreement and the vehicle was not transferred in the name of new purchaser. She next submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 11 of this application.
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Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that illegally the coal was being carried in the said motorcycle.
5. Considering that on agreement the said motorcycle was sold, however, the name of the new purchaser was not transferred and the petitioner has
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got no criminal antecedent and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Dumka in connection with Shikaripara P.S. Case No.03 of 2019, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 26th November, 2025 Ajay/