Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37162 of 2012 ====================================================== Raju Yadav @ Raju Kumar Yadav .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 47(a) of the Excise Act. 12000 sachets of country made liquor were recovered from the pick-up van when the petitioner was identified as the person fleeing away from the place of occurrence when it was suspected by the prosecution that the petitioner was driver. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on suspicion, accusation has been levelled. It is further submitted seizure was made on 11.08.2012 when the prosecution report was transmitted to the learned court below on 13.08.2012. The statement has been made in paragraph no. 8 of the petition that the petitioner has no Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37162 of 2012 (2) dt.28-09-2012 2 / 2 2 criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Jagdishpur P.S. Case No. 134 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Bhojpur at Ara, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 273

Statute Text:
Section 273 of the Indian Penal Code. Selling any food or drink as food and drink, knowing the same to be noxious. Whoever sells, or offers or exposes for sale, as food or drink, any article which has been rendered or has become noxious, or is in a state unfit for food or drink, knowing or having reason to believe that the same is noxious 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.