IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12197 of 2011 VIJAY PRASAD GUPTA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 19.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. The accusation is that the petitioner was filling up the small gas cylinders from the big cylinders. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the seizure list as contained in Annexure-5 reflects seizure of 14.2 Kgs cylinder but no small cylinder was seized, which negates the accusation of the prosecution that the small gas cylinders were being re-filled from the big gas cylinders. Moreover, all the seized cylinders were of the bonafide consumers, as the petitioner, being handicapped person, was running a gas oven repairing shop. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely, Vijay Prasad Gupta, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, 2 Lakhisarai, in connection with Lakhisarai P.S. Case No. 326 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Ibrar/- ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)