( 2026:JHHC:24350 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 4519 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4519 of 2026 Sujit Kumar @ Sujit Yadav, aged about 22 years, son of Manoj Yadav, Village- Hathuwadharan, P.O. Gujhandhi, P.S. Jhumri Telaiya, 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. Manoj Kumar Mishra, A.P.P. ----- 06/14.08.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Telaiya P.S. Case No. 234 of 2025 dated 26.07.2025, registered for the offence under Sections 272, 274, 275, 292 and 3(5) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 47(a)(f) of Jharkhand Excise Act, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegations are made that 60 liters of the Mahua liquor has been recovered from the forest area. He further submits that the petitioner has nothing to do with the said Mahua liquor and the name of the petitioner has come only on suspicion. He also submits that the petitioner is having one criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph 12 of the application. He next submits that the co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in A.B.A. No.1807 of 2026 and A.B.A. No.1902 of 2026. On these grounds, he submits that anticipatory bail may kindly be granted. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the petitioner is having criminal antecedent. ( 2026:JHHC:24350 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 4519 of 2026 5. Considering that the recovery has been made from forest area and there is no concrete evidence to prove that the petitioner has kept the Mahua liquor in the forest area and further the criminal antecedents cannot be sole criterion for either rejecting or allowing the anticipatory or regular bail application and co- accused persons in identical situation, have been granted anticipatory bail in the aforesaid A.B.As. and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of his arrest or surrender, he shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Koderma in connection with Telaiya P.S. Case No.234 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 14th August, 2026 Ajay/