Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5676 of 2012 ====================================================== Kundan Sao @ Kundan Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 15.12.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and Sections 47, 47A, 49, 65 and 55 of the Excise Act. Three persons were apprehended on the spot while packing the country made liquor when other equipments for preparing the country made liquor were also seized. The apprehended accused Dilip Choudhary disclosed the name of the petitioner. It is submitted that Dilip Choudhary has been granted bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 35007 of 2011. Considering the aforesaid fact, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5676 of 2012 (2) dt.28-02-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioner be released on bail, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Deepnagar P.S. Case No. 104 of 2011. Amrendra/- (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.