Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42978 of 2012 ====================================================== Munna Chaudhary S/O Ram Balak Chaudhary Resident Of Village- Rupaspur, Police Station- Buniyadganj and District- Gaya. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-12-2012 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. The accusation is of manufacturing of illicit liquor, fermentated Mahua alongwith the equipments for manufacturing of illicit liquor were recovered. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that recovery has not been made from the petitioner when during investigation it has come that manufacturing was going on. Considering the fact that recovery has not been made from the petitioner it is fit case for consideration of regular bail if the petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42978 of 2012 (2) dt.17-12-2012 2 / 2 2 surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Buniyadganj P.S. Case No. 112 of 2012 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M. Gaya. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.