( 2026:JHHC:20745 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 2424 of 2026 Nirmal Yadav, aged about 33 years, son of Banshi Yadav, resident of Salamdiri, P.O. and P.S. Panki, District-Palamau, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioner :Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Advocate For the State : Mrs. Vandana Bharti, A.P.P. 02/ 14.07.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Panki P.S. Case No. 153 of 2025, registered under sections 111(2) (b), 111(3), 111(4), 271, 272, 274, 341 (3), 348, 349 and 350 of the BNS, 2023 and Section 47(a), 52 and 55 of the Excise Act, pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Palamau. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case. He next submits that the name of the petitioner has come in the confessional statement and even there is no sign of spurious liquor from the alleged place of recovery. He also submits that no material regarding liquor has been recovered. He fairly submits that petitioner has one criminal antecedent. On these grounds, he submits that petitioner may kindly be provide privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail and submits that petitioner is accomplice of Rahul Kumar and the said Rahul Kumar has taken the name of this petitioner stating the involvement of the petitioner in making spurious liquor and in view of that anticipatory bail of the petitioner may kindly be rejected. 5. In the case diary witnesses examined under section 180 of ( 2026:JHHC:20745 ) BNSS, 2023 have supported the case of prosecution and have taken the name of the petitioner regarding his involvement in making the spurious liquor. The petitioner has one criminal antecedent. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, his prayer for anticipatory bail is hereby rejected. Dt.14.07.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-