IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.1345 of 2010 SHEOJEE PRASAD Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 6.4.2010 Heard Mr. N.K. Aggrawal, learned senior counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Dashrath Mehta, learned A.P.P. for the State. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Sonepur P.S. case No. 230 of 2009 dated 9.7.2009 registered under section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that he is not a dealer under P.D.S. scheme. He is mainly owner of a tempo (autorickshaw). According to the prosecution case, certain food grains were being carried on the aforesaid tempo from the P.D.S shop to some other place for the purpose of black marketing. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that admittedly the petitioner was not present there and the autorickshaw in question was being driven by some other person. Further more the stock of P.D.S. dealer was checked by Block Supply Officer and no irregularities were found in that shop. In that view of the matter, let the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest or surrender in the court below within four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing - 2 - bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M, Saran at Chapra in the above noted case, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) Cr.P.C. (Birendra Prasad Verma, J) M.Rahman