Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8271 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Pandey @ Sanjay Kumar Pandey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 47(a)/49 of the Excise Act. 200 litres of spirit were recovered from the bolero jeep when apprehended accused persons named this petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on 22.09.2009 petitioner lodged an informatory petition alleging against the informant of the present case of siding with the opponent of the petitioner, then the present case was lodged on 27.11.2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Sanjay Pandey @ Sanjay Kumar Pandey, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8271 of 2012 (2) dt.19-03-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Gopalganj in connection with Mirganj P.S. Case No. 196 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.