IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.15242 of 2011 PRAKASH CHANDRA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02 13.05.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Section 414 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. Admittedly, the petitioner is domestic cylinder dealer, the discrepancies in stock with regard to empty and filled gas cylinders found during inspection resulted into the filing of the F.I.R. As per the records of the petitioner's agency only 102 filled and 502 empty gas cylinders were found, while as per the records, the filled gas cylinders ought to have been 332 and empty cylinders to be 272. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that this discrepancies has crept in only because informant fail to match the opening and closing balance of the account. As the records were inspected in the morning but the physical verification was done in the evening. It is also submitted that petitioner has not implicated in the similar nature of offences. 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad, in connection with Aurangabad P.S. Case No. 63 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid under Section 438(2) of Cr.P.C. Safik ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)