Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1765 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Siya Yadav @ Seema Yadav 2. Chando Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 19-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Kadamkuan P.S. Case No. 354 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna. The accusation is of preparing adulterated ghee when the seizure was made from Lala Devi and his son Mithilesh Kumar and the petitioner. It is submitted that no analyst report has come with regard to the seized ghee being adulterated. It appears that Lala Devi, Vimal Kumar and others have been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 44762 of 2011 and Cr. Misc. No. 44609 of 2011. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioners preferably on the same day if they Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1765 of 2012 (2) dt.19-01-2012 2/2 surrender within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 272

Statute Text:
Section 272 of the Indian Penal Code. Adulterating food or drink intended for sale, so as to make the same noxious. Whoever adulterates any article of food or drink, so as to make such article noxious as food or drink, intending to sell such article as food or drink, or knowing it to be likely that the same will be sold as food or drink, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.