IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.8357 of 2011 1. RAJ KISHORE PANDEY SON OF SRI KRISHNA PANDEY. 2. RAM ASHISH PRABHAKAR SON OF BHAJAN PASWAN. 3. OM PRAKASH SON OF BHAGWATI PRASAD. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 05.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the wholesaler, retailer and the driver of the vehicle are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. The petitioner Raj Kishore Pandey is the proprietor of Krishna Khad Bhandar, Buxar and Om Prakash is the wholesaler. It appears that 300 bags of fertilizer were seized. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the fertilizers were being transported from Sasaram under the valid authorization. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that Annexure-2 reflects that the retailer intimated the District Agriculture Officer, Buxar that 15 metric tones of fertilizers are being carried from 2 Sasaram. Annexure-3 has been brought on record, the letter of the District Agriculture Officer, Buxar which was sent to the Agriculture Commissioner and the Agriculture Director that due paucity of the supply of fertilizer in the District of Buxar it is being transported from Rohtas and unnecessarily, the fertilizers are being seized, which is creating dissatisfaction to the farmers. It is further submitted that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sasaram in connection with Kochas P.S. Case No. 129/2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)