Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11298 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shambhu Ray, S/O Jagan Nath Ray, R/O Village - Chirayan, P.S. Bakhtiarpur, Distt. – Patna. 2. Agnu Ray, S/O Lalak Ray, R/O Village - Chirayan, P.S. Bakhtiarpur, Distt. – Patna. 3. Sheochandra Ray, S/O Jagan Bahadur Ray, R/O Village - Chirayan, P.S. Bakhtiarpur, Distt. – Patna. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 47(a) of the Excise Act. The accusation is of recovery of 35 liters of country made liquor from each of the petitioners when the petitioners fled away from the place of seizure. It is submitted that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent and recovery is not from their house. Considering the aforesaid submissions and quanity of seizure these are the good grounds for Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11298 of 2012 (2) dt.05-04-2012 2 / 2 2 consideration of regular bail if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Bakhtiarpur P.S. Case No. 115 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned A.C.J.M., Barh. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. 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.