IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.46086 of 2009 BANWARI SINGH SON OF SRI SAHDEO SINGH, RSIDEN OF VILLAGE KHOKHRI, P.S. AND DISTRICT ARWAL ---- PETITIONER. Versus STATE OF BIHAR--- OPP. PARTY. ----------- For the petitioner : M/S Nawal Kishore Agrawal, Sr. Adv. with D.N.Tiwary, Advocate. For the State : Mr.Ram Priya Sharan Singh, A.P.P. ----- 3/ 04.05.2010 Heard the parties. In a criminal prosecution for offence under section 7 of the E.C. Act the petitioner is a dealer under Public Distributor System and there is allegation of not supplying the requisite quantity of food grains to the consumers of B.P.L. and the villagers and he is alleged to have charged some higher amount from them and there is also allegation of black marketing of food grains. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the allegations are vague and not specific. By referring to the provisions of Clause 7 (iii) of Fair Price Shop Order, 2007 it is further submitted that in view of lodging of the present F.I.R., by operation of law, licence of the petitioner shall remain suspended if the present criminal prosecution remains pending in the court and, therefore, it is urged that the petitioner stands sufficiently punished for any omission and commission on his part. In the aforesaid background, in the event of his arrest or surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks from today, let the above named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Arwal P.S. Case No.124 of 2009, subject to the condition as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr. P. C. ( Birendra Prasad Verma, J ) BTiary/