2026:JHHC:20096 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3720 of 2026 ---- Arun Ram @ Arun Kumar, aged about 50 years, son of Mundrika Prasad Singh, resident of Village and PO Dhab, PS and District Koderma .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. Randhir Kumar, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Advocate ---- 2/08.07.2026 The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.2122 of 2023 registered for offence under sections 33, 41, 42 of Indian Forest Act, 1927 (Bihar Amendment Act, 1989) pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case alleging that petitioner was involved in using labourers to collect mica scrap and keeping in the house of one Pradeep Bhulla and he submits that petitioner has nothing to do with the same and in view of that anticipatory bail may kindly be granted. 3. Learned counsel for the respondent State opposes the prayer and submits that the allegations are there against the petitioner and another of utilizing the labourers for collecting mica scrap since last ten years and the entire area has become vulnerable to the environment and on these grounds anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. 4. The allegations are there against the petitioner of taking the services of the labourers in collecting the mica scrap and due to which, since last ten years, the area has become vulnerable to the environment, and in the attending facts and circumstances of the instant case, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner, and as such, his prayer for anticipatory bail is hereby rejected, and consequently, this anticipatory bail application being A.B.A. No.3720 of 2026 is, hereby, dismissed. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 08.07.2026 SI/