IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
A.B.A. No.6510 of 2024
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1. Baijnath Prasad Mehta @ Baijnath Mahto @ Bajo Mahto
2. Khirodhar Prasad Mahto @ Khirodhar Prasad Mehta
3. Nageshwar Mehta
All S/o Lakho Mahto, R/o village-Suji Jihu, P.O.-Jihu, P.S.-
Padma, District-Hazaribag.
.......... Petitioners.
-Versus-
The State of Jharkhand .......... Opp. Party.
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CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SHANKAR
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For the Petitioners : Mr. Atma Ram Chaudhary, Advocate
For the State : Mr. Pankaj Kumar, P.P.
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Order No.02 Date: 29.10.2024
1. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection
with G(F) Case No.1899 of 2021 registered under Sections
33(i)(a)(C) of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 and Sections
27/29 of Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the
petitioners have been falsely implicated in the present
case and have not committed any offence as alleged in the
offence report. As per the allegation, the petitioners had
developed a field after ploughing the forest land within
Lotwa Protected Forest area. In fact, the petitioners were
not at all involved in the said offence. They have been
implicated in this case merely on hearsay statements of
certain villagers. The petitioners have no criminal
antecedent as has been stated in paragraph no.10 of the
present anticipatory bail application. They, however,
undertake to co-operate in the trial. Hence, they may be
given the privilege of anticipatory bail.
3. Learned prayer for grant of
P.P. opposes the petitioners’
anticipatory bail.
4. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and
considering the materials available on record, I am inclined
to enlarge the petitioners on anticipatory bail. Accordingly,
the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest
or surrender before the court below within three weeks
from today, shall be released on bail on furnishing bail
bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) each with
two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of
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learned Judicial Magistrate 1 Class, Hazaribag in
connection with G(F) Case No.1899 of 2021 subject to the
conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Rajesh Shankar, J.)
Vikas/
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