Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15849 of 2012 (2) dt.27-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15849 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravi Kant Tiwary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] and sections 47(a) and 52 of the Excise Act. From the government liquor shop, sixty liters of Nepali liquor, country made liquor and other articles were seized. One Jokhan Sah was arrested. The petitioner was not specifically named. FIR was lodged against the owner of the government liquor shop. It is submitted that during investigation, it has not come that actually any seizure was made from the petitioner’s shop nor Jokhan Sah named this petitioner and in the initial chargesheet the petitioner was not named and statement has been made in paragraph 11 of the petition that in 2011 charge sheet was submitted in which the petitioner has been named. Statement has also been made in paragraph 12 of the petition that the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15849 of 2012 (2) dt.27-04-2012 has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned SDJM, Raxaul at Motihari in connection with Raxaul P.S. Case No. 12 of 2005 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.