Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22789 of 2012 ====================================================== Abhimanyu Singh & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-07-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 47a of the Excise Act. Huge quantity of country made and foreign liquor were recovered from the wooden shop(Gumti) when one Shiv Nandan Raut being salesman was arrested, who named Sanjeev Kunwar and petitioner Abhimanyu Singh. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners are licensee when they are not connected with the Gumti and they were on inimical term with the police personnel since the wife of petitioner No. 2 has lodged a complaint against the police personnel at earlier point of time, hence it is submitted that recovery can not be treated from the possession of the petitioners. Moreover the apprehended accused never named the petitioners. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22789 of 2012 (2) dt.18-07-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Abhimanyu Singh @ Abhimanyu Kumar Singh 2. Om Prakash Gupta @ Om Prakash Prasad, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Baniapur P.S. Case No. 37 of 2012. 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.