O R D E R:

Respondent No.2 – Bureau of Indian Standards seized the stock and registered case vide STC No.17 of 2025 before the I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Hyderabad against petitioners. Challenging the same as illegal, arbitrary and contrary to the BIS Rules, and consequently to quash the same and direct release of the material seized under Seizure Memo dated 22.04.2025, petitioners are before this Court.

Petitioners’ case is that petitioner No.1 is a private limited company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013, recognized as a Micro Enterprise under MSME Registration No.UDYAM-TS-02-0096508 and registered as a Start-up with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. Petitioners stated that the company is engaged in trading battery-operated low-voltage kitchen appliances including portable blenders and choppers operating at 7.4V DC, which according to petitioners fall under IS 302 (Part 1) Safety of Household and Similar Electrical Appliances and are below the maximum voltage threshold of 250V prescribed therein.

It is contended, on 22.04.2025, there was no notified and enforceable requirement mandating BIS Standard Mark for petitioners’ cat