IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.26712 of 2009 BHAVENDRA KUMAR BHARTI . Versus STATE OF BIHAR . ----------- 3/ 30/03/2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner is aggrieved by the institution of an F.I.R. against him registered as Sursand P.S. Case No.56/08 under Section-7 of E.C. Act in his capacity as a P.D.S. Dealer. The F.I.R. itself states that it was being lodged against the petitioner as an ex-P.D.S. Dealer. The allegations pertain to the year-2006. The F.I.R. has been lodged in the year-2008. There is no explanation in the F.I.R. for this long unreasonable delay. In between, the petitioner has quit the dealership when he was appointed as a teacher on 9.12.2006. No useful purpose is going to be served by allowing this belated prosecution of the petitioner to continue when he is no more a P.D.S. Dealer and there is inordinate delay in the institution of the F.I.R. itself, without any plausible explanation for the same. The entire prosecution of the petitioner in Sursand P.S. Case No.56/08 pending before Sub- 2 divisional Judicial Magistrate, Pupri at Sitamarhi is accordingly quashed. The application stands allowed. KC/ ( Navin Sinha, J.)