2026:JHHC:3479 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 6691 of 2025 ---- Harshit Tiwari @ Harshit Kumar Tiwari, aged about 20 years, son of Ravindra Nath Tiwari, resident of Chota Khatanga, PO Toto, PS Gumla, Dist. Gumla .... Petitioner -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioner :- Mr. A.K.Chaturvedi, Advocate For the State :- Mr. P.D.Agarwal, Spl.PP ---- 2/10.02.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Gumla P.S. Case No.311 of 2025, for offence registered under section 21(a), 22(a) and 29 of NDPS Act, pending in court of learned Sessions Judge-cum- Special Judge, NDPS Act, Gumla. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case and 1.50 gram brown sugar was recovered from the possession of Shubham Kumar and Sanju Oraon. He next submits that even the quantity of the said contraband is small and the co-accused person has been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.6817 of 2025. He also submits that the motorcycle of the petitioner was parked near the water tank and not near the house from where the recovery has been made. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the motorcycle of the petitioner was found there and in view of that, 2026:JHHC:3479 2 the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner may kindly be rejected. 5. Looking to the contents of the FIR it transpires that the said recovery of brown sugar was made from the possession of Subham Kumar and Sanju Oraon and the quantity of the said contraband is small and the co-accused has been granted anticipatory bail as aforesaid and it has been pointed out that the motorcycle of the petitioner was parked near the water tank and not near the house from where the recovery has been made, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner. 6. Accordingly, petitioner, above named, is hereby directed to surrender before learned court within three weeks from today, and in event of his surrender/arrest, petitioner, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand), with two sureties of like amount each, to satisfaction of learned Sessions Judge-cum- Special Judge, NDPS Act, Gumla, in connection with Gumla P.S. Case No.311 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 10.02.2026 SI/