Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10203 of 2012 ====================================================== Sikandar Kewat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 30-03-2012 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. 120 litres of country made liquor was recovered from the house of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the house from where seizure was made does not belong to the petitioner and petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for three months in the event of his arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10203 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Gaya (Muffasil) P.S. Case No. 20 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. In the meantime, let the learned court below call for a report from the concerned C.O. and if it is found that the place of seizure does not belong to the petitioner then the provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned court below and if it is found that the place of seizure belong to the petitioner then the provisional bail will not be confirmed and petitioner will surrender before the learned court below. DKS/ (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.