Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5656 of 2012 ====================================================== Doodh Nath Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Arun Kr. Rai, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Parmanand Kr., App. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 47a of the Excise Act. One thousand liters of country made liquor were recovered from the hutment of Yugal Kishore Singh and Raj Kishore Singh, who have not been made accused when from the possession of the petitioner, four empty drums were seized. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that in the impugned order there is an error of record that the petitioner is accused in six cases rather he is accused only Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5656 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 2 / 2 2 in one case which was instituted in the year 1998. Considering the nature of recovery, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Mashrakh P.S. Case No. 112 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.