2026:JHHC:1152 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 145 of 2026 ---- 1.Gulam Mian @ Gulam Rasul Ansari @ Md. Gulam Ansari, aged about 45 years, son of Shubhan Hussain Ansari @ Shubhani Mian 2.Mashi Ansari @ Masi Ansari, aged about 47 years, son of Rahim Ansari, Both are residents of Village and PO Dhodhakola, PS and District Koderma .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Randhir Kumar, Advocate For the State :- Mr. Bishwambhar Shastri, Advocate ---- 2/15.01.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioner and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.177 of 2022, for offence registered under section 26(1)(g), 42 of Indian Forest Act, 1927 (Bihar Amendment Act, 1989) and sections 27, 29, 51 of Wild Life Protection Act, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Koderma. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that false allegations have been made against the petitioners of excavating scrap mica from the forest area and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.16 and in identical situation two coaccused persons have been granted anticipatory bail in ABA No.4844 of 2022. 2026:JHHC:1152 2 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that excavating of scrap mica is there. 5. Considering that the name of the petitioners have come on confessional statement of one Sadik Ansari and coaccused persons have been granted anticipatory bail as aforesaid and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedent as aforesaid, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioners. 6. Accordingly, both the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within four weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, petitioners, 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 Judicial Magistrate First Class, Koderma, in connection with Complaint Case No.177 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 15.01.2026 SI/