Mamta Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.24850 of 2015 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -22 Year- 2014 Thana -RAIYAM District- DARBHANGA ======================================================

1. Mamta Devi Wife of Sri Amod Jha resident of village - Phulkahi, P.O. and P.S. Raiyam, District - Darbhanga .... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

1. The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Kaushalesh Choudhary, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. S. Eheteshmuddin (App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 08-07-2015 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act.

It is alleged against the petitioner that petitioner being a PDS dealer supplied 11,672 quintal wheat and 175.08 quintal rice but during inspection only 102 quintals wheat and 147 quintals rice were found.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the inspection was made after one and half month of delivery of the food-grains and the shortage is meager quantity. It is further submitted that licence of the PDS shop has already cancelled. Considering the quantity of shortage and petitioner

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24850 of 2015 (2) dt.08-07-2015 2/2 being lady, let her be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of `10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Darbhanga in connection with Raiyam P.S. Case No.22 of 2014, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J) Ashwini/- U T