( 2026:JHHC:19435 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 3551 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3551 of 2026 1. Shahnawaz Sai @ Shahnwaz Sai, aged about 28 years, S/o Late Sultan Sai, R/o Murgu, P.O. Nagpheni, P.S. Sisai, District- Gumla, Jharkhand 2. Baisal Khan, aged about 21 years, S/o Mustafa Khan, R/o Village Malgo, P.O. & P.S. Bharno, District- Gumla, Jharkhand … Petitioners -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioners : Ms. Rashika Bhardwaj, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Spl.P.P. ----- 02/03.07.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Jariyagarh P.S. Case No.09/2026, registered for the offence under Sections 325, 317(5), 299, 3(5) of the BNS, Section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 and Section 12(1), 12(2), 12(3), 13 of Jharkhand Bovine Animal (Prohibition of Slaughter) Act, 2005, pending in the Court of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Khunti. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are drivers of different pick-up vans. She further submits that the allegations are made of carrying bovine animals. She then submits that the petitioners are having no criminal antecedents, as disclosed in paragraph 7 of this application. She next submits that the petitioners earn their livelihood by driving the said pick-up vans. She also submits that the owners of the vehicle have already been granted anticipatory bail by this Court in A.B.A. No.2977 of 2026. ( 2026:JHHC:19435 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 3551 of 2026 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that in a cruel manner, the bovine animals were being carried in the said pick-up vans. 5. Considering that the petitioners are drivers of two different pick-up vans and they are having no criminal antecedents, as disclosed in paragraph 7 of this application and it has been pointed out that the petitioners earn their livelihood by driving the said pick-up vans and further the owners of the vehicles have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court in the aforesaid A.B.A. 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Khunti in connection with Jariyagarh P.S. Case No.09/2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 3rd July, 2026 Ajay/