IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.48590 of 2008 BABLOO KUMAR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- Cr.Misc. No.49328 of 2008 JAWAHAR LAL Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- Cr.Misc. No.49338 of 2008 PARMANAND PRABHAKAR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 12.12.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners apprehend arrest in a Police case under Sections 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. The submission is that the petitioners in Cr. Misc. No. 48590 of 2008 and Cr. Misc. No. 49328 of 2008 are consumers who were merely present at the spot where the cylinders were being unloaded from the Truck for distribution. The petitioner in Cr. Misc. No. 49338 of 2008 is stated to be the proprietor of L.P.G. Agency working since 1989 having no antecedents much less under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. The common submission is that the F.I.R. is based on mere suspicion when there are no allegations with name of any customer to whom it was allegedly sold in black at the spot. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioners, abovenamed surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks from today, when they shall be 2 enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M., Nalanda at Biharsharif in Rajgir P.S. case No. 139 of 2008, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. AKS/ (Navin Sinha, J.)