( 2025:JHHC:37089 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 6929 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 6929 of 2025 1. Deepak Kumar, aged about 29 years, son of Ramesh Singh, resident of Village- Englishpur, P.O. Dhobahan Bazar, P.S. Dhobaha, District- Bhojpur, Bihar 2. Dhiran Kumar Yadav, aged about 30 years, son of Krishna Yadav, resident of Village- Englishpur, P.O. Dhobahan Bazar, P.S. Dhobaha, District- Bhojpur, Bihar 3. Ganesh Kumar Yadav @ Ganesh Yadav, aged about 29 years, son of Prabhu Yadav, resident of Village- Angrezi Tola, P.O. & P.S. Barhara, District- Bhojpur, Bihar 4. Dhananjay Kumar Roy, aged about 28 years, son of Baliram Roy Yadav @ Baliram Ray, resident of DL2-423, Durga Mandir, Domgarh, P.O. & P.S. Sindri, District- Dhanbad, Jharkhand … Petitioners -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioners : Mr. Anjani Kumar, Advocate For the State : Ms. Nehala Sharmin, Spl.P.P. (Through VC) ----- 02/10.12.2025 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State appearing through Video Conferencing. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Hunterganj P.S. Case No.108 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 317(5)/3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act and Sections 12(1)/12(2)/12(3) of Jharkhand Bovine Animal (Prohibition of Slaughter) Act, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are owners of different pick-up vans. He further submits that the allegations are made that in the said pick-up vans, bovine animals were loaded. He then submits that the petitioners are having no criminal antecedents, as disclosed in paragraph 12 of this application. ( 2025:JHHC:37089 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 6929 of 2025 4. Learned counsel for the State appearing through Video Conferencing opposed the prayer and submits that illegally the bovine animals were being carried in the said pick-up vans. 5. Considering that the petitioners are owners of different pick-up vans and they have got no criminal antecedents, as disclosed in paragraph 12 of this application and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of their arrest or surrender, they shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Chatra in connection with Hunterganj P.S. Case No.108 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 10th December, 2025 Ajay/