Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21522 of 2012 ====================================================== Dilip Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 20-07-2012 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] , 31, 52, 56, 57, 59, 63 and 64 of Food Safety and Standard Act & Rules, 2006 and Schedule-4, Part-V of Regulations, 2011. The shop of the petitioner was inspected when huge quantity of Doda Barfi and Milk Cake were being prepared when the materials by which the sweets were prepared were found having colouring material and insects. The analyst reports reflect that the raw materials as well as the milk for preparing sweets were not found up to the prescribed standard. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21522 of 2012 (3) dt.20-07-2012 2/2 petitioner that the shop was being managed by the Manager, who was apprehended on the spot and has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 15388 of 2010. I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Ramkrishna Nagar P.S. Case No. 89 of 2011 (Special Case No. 21 of 2011) pending in the court of learned Special Judge –cum- Additional Sessions Judge-XIV, Patna. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.