IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34605 of 2011 1. Gurucharan Paswan @ Gurucharan Ram Son of late Kedar Paswan 2. Kamlesh Singh @ Kamleshwar Singh Son of Late Bikramaditya Singh 3. Arbind Singh @ Arvind Kumar Singh Son of Kamlesh Singh 4. Brajesh Singh @ Brajeshwar Singh All resident of village Piyania, P.S.Udwant Nagar,District Bhojpur Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02/ 24.10.2011 Heard Mr.N.K.Agrawal, learned Senior counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. According to allegation, 338 bags of rice and 88 bags of wheat meant for distribution under Public Distribution Scheme were seized from the houses of the petitioners and for that seizures were made. Submission is that the petitioners have no concern with the 2 seized grains. There is no violation of any control order so no offence under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act is made out. The trade of wheat and rice has been de- licensed from the year 2002 and all control i.e. movement control, storage limit, requirement of licence, maintenance of stock register, issuance of cash memo, display of stock and price position have been abolished. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender within twenty days from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, the above named petitioners shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to 3 the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara in Udwantnagar P.S.Case No. 11 of 2011 subject to the condition as laid down in Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Tahir/- (Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)