( 2026:JHHC:26620 ) -1- A.B.A. No. 5001 of 2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 5001 of 2026 Chotu Yadav @ Dhanshyam Kumar Yadav @ Chhotu Yadav @ Dhanshyam Kumar, aged 25 years, son of Shambhu Yadav, resident of Village- Banwar, P.O. & P.S. Lawalong, District- Chatra … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Anupam Anand, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agrawal, Spl.P.P. ----- 02/03.09.2026 Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned counsel appearing for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Lawalong P.S. Case No.12 of 2026, registered for the offence under Sections 18, 27(a), 28, 29, 30 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 and Section 33 of the Indian Forest Act, pending in the Court of the learned Principal District Judge, Chatra. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. He further submits that the allegation is made of cultivation of poppy plant on the forest land. He next submits that the petitioner is a villager and he is having no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 20 of this application. He also submits that other co-accused persons, who are 32 in numbers, have been granted anticipatory bail in different A.B.As. by way of Annexure-2 Series. On these grounds, he submits that anticipatory bail may kindly be granted. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of cultivation of poppy plant on forest land and in view of that, the prayer for anticipatory bail may kindly be rejected. ( 2026:JHHC:26620 ) -2- A.B.A. No. 5001 of 2026 5. Considering that in identical situation in different A.B.As. by way of Annexure-2 Series, co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail and the petitioner is having no criminal antecedent, as disclosed in paragraph 20 of this application 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 Principal District Judge, Chatra in connection with Lawalong P.S. Case No.12 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated: 3rd September, 2026 Ajay/