Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29428 of 2012 ====================================================== Arun Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16-08-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make correction in the prayer portion. 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. From the house of Ram Chandra Mahto and Jot Narayan Singh illicit liquors were seized when two persons were apprehended, who named this petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the seizure list does not reflect that any seizure was made from the house of the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29428 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 2/2 event of his arrest or 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, Siwan in connection with Daraunda P.S. Case No. 77 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.