2026:JHHC:1331 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND, RANCHI ---- A.B.A. No. 2058 of 2026 ---- 1.Pappu Yadav @ Pappu Kumar, aged about 30 years son of Bhuneshwar Yadav, resident of Village Parsatari, PO and PS Chouparan, District Hazaribagh 2.Ranjit Yadav @ Ranjit Kumar, aged about 35 years, son of Hari Yadav, resident of Village Bagai, PO and PS Gurpa, District Gaya, Bihar .... Petitioners -- Versus -- The State of Jharkhand .... Opposite Party ---- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI --- For the Petitioners :- Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Advocate For the State :- Mrs Lily Sahay, Advocate ---- 5/05.05.2026 Heard learned counsels for petitioners and for State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint (Ex) Case No.3351 of 2025, for offence registered under section 47(a), 52(a), 55 of Excise Act, pending in court of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Hazaribag. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners submits that the petitioners have nothing to do with the Maruti Van from where the foreign liquor has been seized. He next submits that only on the basis of suspicion, the name of the petitioners has been inserted in the FIR, and according to him, the petitioners were not present on the spot and the allegations are made of taking away the miscreants from the police custody. He further submits that the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent as disclosed in paragraph no.14. 4. Learned State counsel opposes prayer and submits that the 2026:JHHC:1331 2 allegations are there of taking away the miscreants from the police custody. 5. Considering that the name of the petitioners has come on the basis of suspicion and the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent as aforesaid and only allegation is made of taking away the miscreants from police custody, and in the attending facts and circumstances of the present case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. 6. Accordingly, both the petitioners, above named, are hereby directed to surrender before learned court within two weeks from today, and in event of their surrender/arrest, both the petitioners, above named, shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each, with two sureties of like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Hazaribag, in connection with Complaint (Ex) Case No.3351 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) 05.05.2026 SI/