JUDGMENT :

YOGESH KHANNA, J.

(Through Video Conferencing)

1. This writ petition is filed by the petitioner for direction to the respondent to immediately release the products/stock seized by it from the petitioner’s Collection Centre at Lodhi Colony and the petitioner’s office premises at Mehrauli. Further, it is also prayed to restrain the respondent from seizing any further products of the petitioner pursuant to the FIR, besides other reliefs or even otherwise. This prayer (b) has since been withdrawn.

2. The gamut of the arguments raised by the learned senior counsel for the petitioner is a raid conducted on 05.05.2021 by the SHO of police station Lodhi Colony while patrolling in the area on the restaurant in the name and style of Nege Ju in the Central Market, Lodhi Colony, New Delhi. On search of aforesaid premises, 32 boxes of Oxygen Concentrators of 09 and 05 liters capacity; one box of thermal scanner and KN-95 Masks were recovered. In this regard, the FIR No.116/2021 dated 05.05.2021 under Section 3/7 of the Essential Commodities Act, under Section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act and Section 420/188/120B/34 IPC was registered at police station Lodhi Colony. Four accused persons