( 2026:JHHC:19654 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 3514 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3514 of 2026 1. Sudama Mehta @ Sudama Kumar, aged about 27 years, son of Naresh Mehta 2. Aman Kumar, aged about 20 years, son of Dilip Prasad @ Dilip Prasad Mehta, Both residents of Village- Dumraun, P.O. & P.S. Ichak, Dist. Hazaribag … Petitioners -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioners : Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Advocate For the State : Mr. Vishwanath Roy, Spl.P.P. ----- 05/06.07.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Ichak P.S. Case No.56 of 2026, registered for the offence under Sections 21(a), 21(b), 22(a), 22(b), 27(a), 29 of the N.D.P.S. Act, pending in the Court of the learned Principal District and Sessions Judge cum Special Judge, N.D.P.S. Act, Hazaribag. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the case. He further submits that the names of the petitioners have come on confessional statement. He then submits that the allegations are made against the petitioners that they have supplied brown sugar to the apprehended co-accused. On these grounds, he submits that anticipatory bail may kindly be granted to the petitioners. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the petitioners are supplier of the said brown sugar and the petitioners are having criminal antecedent of similar nature. On these grounds, ( 2026:JHHC:19654 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 3514 of 2026 he submits that the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners may kindly be rejected. 5. There are parameters of granting regular bail or anticipatory bail in the cases arising out of N.D.P.S. Act. The petitioners are having criminal antecedent of similar nature. There is direct allegation against the petitioners of supplying brown sugar to the apprehended co-accused from whose possession the brown sugar in question has been recovered. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners and, as such, their prayer for anticipatory bail is, hereby, rejected. 7. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 6th July, 2026 Ajay/