The appellants who are accused in a case under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 filed a writ petition before a learned Judge of the Patna High Court for quashing its proceeding on the ground that a licence was number required by an oil miller under the provisions of the Bihar Trade Articles Licenses Unification Order, 1984 for breach of which they were being prosecuted.
Heard the learned companynsel for the parlies.
Leave granted.
In support of their companytention, they relied upon a judgment of another learned Judge of the Patna High Court in Parsuram Prasad v. State of Bihar, 1996 2 Pat LJR 56 HC .
