Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41745 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Prasad @ Sri Ram Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Mairwa (Jeeradei) P.S. Case No. 100 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 47 (a) of the Excise Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan. Huge quantity of liquor and packing materials were recovered from the joint family house of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the recovery has been made from the joint family house but different seizure list has been prepared from different areas in order to involve the entire family members. In view of this Court, it is fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41745 of 2012 (2) dt.05-12-2012 2/2 weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.