IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR. WJC No.899 of 2008 ANITA KUMARI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ANR ----------- 3/ 15/09/2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner along with the officials of the Indian Oil Corporation was prosecuted for underweight cylinders under Section-7 of E.C. Act. The petitioner is the dealer and her prosecution came to be quashed by this Court in Cr. Misc. No.17863/06 even while it is stated at the bar that the prosecution continues against the authorities of the Indian Oil Corporation. The relief sought for is to release the cylinders which were supplied to the petitioner by the Indian Oil Corporation seized from her dealership. The petitioner does not appear to have made any such prayer in Cr. Misc. No.38820/06. In any event of the matter the petitioner has an alternative statutory remedy before the court below where proceedings are pending under the Code of Criminal Procedure with regard to release of seized properties. This writ application is, therefore, disposed with the observation that if the petitioner files an 2 application for release of the goods before the court below the same is required to be considered and disposed of expeditiously in accordance with law and nothing in the present order shall be deemed as the refusal of this Court to interfere in this matter as this Court has only declined jurisdiction in view of the availability of the statutory remedy KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)