[ 2026:JHHC:13318] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 2068 of 2026 Babulal Mahato, aged about 44 years, son of Khadu Mahato, resident of Village-Kumhari, P.O.-Pupunki Ashram, P.S. Chas (M), District-Bokaro. ..... … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioner : Mr. Nishant Kumar Roy, Advocate. For the State : Mr. P.D. Agarwal, A.P.P. ------ 06/ 05.05.2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Chas (M) P.S. Case No. 105 of 2024, registered for the offence under Sections 272, 273, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 34 of the Indian penal Code and Section 47(A) of Excise Act, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Bokaro. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that from a house, liquor has been recovered and the petitioner has nothing to do with the said house. He next submits that the name of the petitioner has come in the confessional statement. He further submits that the petitioner is having two criminal antecedents and even in one case, the petitioner has been acquitted and, in another case, he has already been granted anticipatory bail. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the petitioner is having the criminal antecedent. 5. Considering that the house is not belonging to the petitioner, from which, the recovery of liquor was made and the name [ 2026:JHHC:13318] -2- of the petitioner has come on the basis of confessional statement and further criminal antecedent is not the sole criteria either to reject or allow the regular bail or anticipatory bail 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 her 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Bokaro, in connection with Chas (M) P.S. Case No. 105 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-05.05.2026 Amitesh/-