IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.2679 of 2009 MD. KALAMUDDIN, son of Md.Nasiruddin Ansari, Resident of village and P.O.Damodarpur, P.S. Kanti, District Muzaffarpur-------petitioner Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR-----------------opp.party ----------- 2. 8.5.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional P.P. for the State. The petitioner prays for anticipatory bail in a case under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. The allegation against the petitioner is of having lifted 200 litres each of kerosene oil on three different dates and not having sold them. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is an old licensee of the year 1985 and earlier no such allegation has been leveled against him. It is further submitted that there is no provision of taking or giving receipt in this regard and thus he could not produce any such proof regarding having distributed the entire quantity of kerosene oil during the said period. On a consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that the petitioner Md.Kalamuddin, in the event of his arrest or surrender in the court below within 2 four weeks from today, shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur, in connection with Muzaffarpur Town P.S.case no. 370/07 subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. (Ramesh Kumar Datta,J.) spal/