IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.53243 of 2007 SITARAM SAH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 5/ 16/7/2008. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner apprehends arrest in a police case under Section- 7 of the Essential Commodities Act and 414 of I.P.C. The submission is that the owner of the Kerosene oil and the food grains has been granted anticipatory bail in Cr.Misc. No.45397/07. There is nothing on the record to suggest that the rice in question was of a Government scheme when otherwise it is a free sale commodity. The Kerosene oil seized has already been the subject of a confiscation proceeding and sold. Considering that the recovery of 280 litres of Kerosene oil is from the premises of the petitioner when co-accused has been granted anticipatory on the consideration that there was no recovery from his premises, this Court is not persuaded to grant the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. The application is rejected. However, the aforesaid are aspects to be appropriately kept in mind in any application for regular bail, without being prejudiced by the present order. KC ( Navin Sinha,J )