( 2026:JHHC:20091 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 3597 of 2026 1. Bhola Singh @ Hulash Singh Bhogta, aged about 36 years 2. Chetlala Singh, aged about 27 years 3. Guddu Singh @ Guddu Singh Bhokta, aged about 31 years All sons of Prayag Singh @ Prayag Singh Bhokta, Resident of village Aamkudar, P.O. and P.S. Rajpur, District-Chatra, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Hadish Ansari, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Priya Shrestha, Spl. P.P. 02/ 08.07.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Rajpur P.S. Case No. 87 of 2025, registered under section 27(a), 28, 29, 30 of N.D.P.S. Act and 33 of Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of learned Principal District & Sessions Judge, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that false allegation is made of cultivation of poppy plant in the forest area. He next submits that the said land is not belonging to the petitioners and petitioners have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 16 of the petition and co- accused has been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No. 3389 of 2026. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that allegations are there of cultivation of poppy plant in the forest area. 5. Considering that land is of the forest department, the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 16 of the petition and co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.A, I ( 2026:JHHC:20091 ) am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners is directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Principal District & Sessions Judge, Chatra, in connection with Rajpur P.S. Case No. 87 of 2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.08.07.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-