RANCHI, India, Nov. 2 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on Oct. 6:
1. Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned counsel appearing for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.281 of 2022, registered for the offence under Sections 26(1)(g) of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (Bihar Amendment Act, 1989) and Sections 27 and 29 of Wild Life Protection Act, pending in the Court of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Koderma.
3. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have nothing to do with the alleged mica scrap and on the basis of suspicion only, the petitioners have been named in the offence report. He further submits that the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents, as disclosed in paragraph 11 of this application.
4. Learned counsel appearing for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of storing mica scrap.
5. Considering that unknown persons have disclosed the name of the petitioners and name of those persons are not disclosed in the offence report and the petitioners have got no criminal antecedents and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioners.
6. Accordingly, the above-named petitioners are directed to surrender before the learned Court within three weeks from today and in the event of their arrest or surrender, they will be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Koderma in connection with Complaint Case No.281 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
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