Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court, Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.150 of 2024, decided 19-02-2024 (coram: P. B. Bajanthri and Alok Kumar Pandey, JJ; order per P. B. Bajanthri, J). Petitioner Anurag Anand challenged the order dated 27.07.2023 of the Exclusive Special Excise Judge-2nd, Siwan in Excise P.S. Case No. 214 of 2023 (alleged offence under Section 30 (a), Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016) and sought release of seized materials claimed to be non-alcoholic with no confiscation proceeding initiated. Held: petition not maintainable under Article 226 of the Constitution as criminal revision remedy available; disposed of as not maintainable with liberty to invoke appropriate remedy. No precedent cited.
What did the court decide?
No relief granted; petition disposed of as not maintainable with liberty reserved to the petitioner to invoke appropriate remedy.