( 2025:JHHC:34439 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 6508 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6508 of 2025 Everest Infrastructure & Developers registered owner of Vehicle No.JH01FR- 3744 through partner Ashok Laksman Bhosale, aged about 64 years, S/o Laxman, Plot No.40, Antrokikar Nagar No.2, P.O. & P.S. Solapur, Maharshtra- 413003 … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Mrinal Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl.P.P. ----- 04/19.11.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Ormanjhi P.S. Case No.175/2024, registered for the offence under Sections 317(2)/61(2), 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Rule 54 of JMMC Rules and Rule 13 of the Jharkhand Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining, Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, XIV, Ranchi. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner happened to be the owner of the vehicle in question. He further submits that the allegations are made that 600 CFT. stone boulders were loaded on the said vehicle. He refers to Annexure-2 and submits that it was being carried on valid challan, however that has been ignored by the informant. He then submits that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 13 of this application. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that illegally the stone boulders are being carried in the said vehicle. ( 2025:JHHC:34439 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 6508 of 2025 5. Considering that the petitioner is the owner of the vehicle in question and he has got no criminal antecedent and Annexure-2 prima facie suggests that challan was there 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 Judicial Magistrate, XIV, Ranchi in connection with Ormanjhi P.S. Case No.175/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 19th November, 2025 Ajay/