IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.14412 of 2010 PARMANAND HARIJAN , SON OF SANTU RAM, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE- BAGAHA SUGAR MILL, NARAIPUR, POLICE STATION- BAGAHA (PATHKHAULI), DISTRICT- WEST CHAMPARAN . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR . ----------- 3. 03.06.2010. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner is a Fair Price Shop Dealer. He is apprehending his arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act as he has been named by a rickshaw- puller that petitioner provided him with five bags of rice for selling in the black market. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that having seized the foodgrain found on the rickshaw his shop and godown were also raided by the informant-Block Supply Officer and he verified the food grains available in the shop but the stock-register could not be verified as the son of the petitioner did not offer the same for verification whereafter present case has been registered. Let the petitioner Parmanand Harijan and the Block Supply Officer concerned appear before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, West Champaran within four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha and in presence of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate the stock-register be verified with reference to the entries made on the date of the occurrence i.e. 23.2.2010 with respect to the issue-register maintained by the authorities and if there is no infirmity in the stock found in the shop/godown premises of the petitioner on 23.2.2010, petitioner, named above, be admitted to the - 2 - privilege of bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 5000/- (Five thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, West Champaran in connection with Bagaha (Pathkhauli) P.S.Case No. 74 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C., failing which the learned A.C.J.M . shall pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. Until such verification is made, no coercive steps be taken against the petitioner. The verification be made as early as possible, in any case within two weeks of the receipt of the order dated 03.06.2010. Let this order be communicated to the court below through fax on payment of usual charges by the petitioner which the counsel for the petitioner has undertaken to deposit today itself. P.K.P. (V.N.Sinha,J.)