[2026:JHHC:13332] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 2070 of 2026 1. Shyam Kumar Singh @ Shyam Kr Singh, aged about 30 years, son of Birbal Singh, resident of House No. 80 E, Rana Pratap Nagar, Chas, P.O. & P.S. Chas, District- Bokaro. 2. Rahul Kumar @ Rahul Mandal, aged about 27 years, son of Ram Punit Kumar, resident of Yadhuwansh Nagar, Chas, P.O. & P.S. Chas, District- Bokaro. ..... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Vikash Kumar, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Rakesh Ranjan, A.P.P. ------ 06/ 05.05.2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Pindrajora P.S. Case No. 179 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 338, 336(3), 340(2), 272, 274, 275, 345(2), 348 read with 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 47(A) of Excise Act, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Bokaro. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the name of the petitioners has come on the basis of confessional statement of local villagers. He next submits that false allegation is made against the petitioners of manufacturing of spurious liquor by way of using contaminated articles. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of manufacturing the [2026:JHHC:13332] -2- spurious liquor by way of using the contaminated articles. It is also alleged that the mini factory of spurious liquor is running by these petitioners. 5. From the FIR, it transpires that spurious liquor was being made by way of using the contaminated articles, which is like a mini factory and from the place of occurrence, one empty plastic drum, four empty plastic jars of which each one is of thirty liters, four bottles of chemical on which RUM JAMACIALB is written, two boxes of empty bottles, about 50 pieces of cartons, two boxes of stickers of Signature Company, Royal Company and B7 Company, one carton of 8PM Gold 180 ml wrapper, one pouch sealer machine, one bottle cap sealing machine, ten (10) cans of paint having Camel Orange Red mark on them, one (01) bundle of MC Dowell's No. 1 sticker, one bundle of Blender Pride 375 ml sticker, four (4) pieces of Iconiq White sticker, one (01) bundle of Old Monk 750ML sticker, were recovered. It has further come in the order of the learned Sessions Judge that the petitioners are having the criminal antecedents. 6. Since the allegations are there of manufacturing spurious liquor illegally by way of using the aforementioned seized articles and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, their prayer for anticipatory bail is rejected. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-05.05.2026 Amitesh/-