Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5765 of 2012 ====================================================== Randhir Patel .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-03-2012 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 section 47 (a) of the Excise Act. 40 litres of spirit were recovered from the cattle shed. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the cattle shed had no doors and it was outside the house. More over, for the recovery of 4.12.2007, FIR was lodged on 7.12.2012 which clouds the bonafide of the accusation. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his 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, Vaishali in connection with Vaishali (Belsar O.P.) P.S. Case Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5765 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 2 / 2 2 No.285 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.