( 2026:JHHC:13151 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A. B. A. No. 2035 of 2026 1. Ratan Singh, aged about 37 years, son of Kalicharan Singh, resident of village-Dumkakocha, VTC Kesharpur, P.O. Kesharpur, P.S. Ghatshila, Ghatshila, District-East Singhbhum, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand 2. Ganesh Munda, aged about 25 years, son of Lugu Munda, resident of Chaira, VTC Mahulishol, P.O. Mahulishol, P.S. Baharagora, District-East Singhbhum, Jharkhand ...... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand .…. … Opposite Party -------- CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI For the Petitioners :Mr. Chandrajit Mukherjee, Advocate For the State : Mr. Prabhu Dayal Agrawal, Spl.P.P. 02/ 04.05.2026: Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Gurabanda P.S. Case No. 25/2025, registered under sections 303(2), 317(5) of BNS, 2023 and section 21 of MMDR Act, 1957, under Rule 54 of JMMC Rule, 2004, Rule 13 of Jharkhand Minerals and Mines (Prevention of illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules, 2017 pending in the Court of learned S.D.J.M, Ghatsila. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are drivers of different two trucks and allegations are made that 500 cft sand was loaded on each of the truck. He submits that petitioners have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 11 of the petition and the said sand was booked by another person. He next submits that owners have been granted anticipatory bail. On these grounds, he submits that the petitioners may kindly be provided privilege of anticipatory bail. 4. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer and submits that illegally the sand was being carried out. 5. Considering that petitioners are drivers of different two trucks ( 2026:JHHC:13151 ) and they have got no criminal antecedent which is disclosed in para 11 of the petition and it has been pointed out that sand was booked by another person. The owners have been granted anticipatory bail. 6. In the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M, Ghatsila, in connection with Gurabanda P.S. Case No. 25/2025, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S.S, 2023. Dt.04.05.2026 ( Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) satyarthi-