Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25161 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ram Bilas Rai @ Ram Bilash Rai 2. Binay Rai @ Binay Kumar Ray 3. Raghunath Sahani .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 47(a) of the Excise Act. From the house of petitioner no. 1, 20 drums of spirit whereas from the house of petitioner no. 3, 108 bottles of foreign liquor and 100 bottles of country made liquor were recovered. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail by the learned court below if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Madhuban P.S. Case No. 233 of 2011 pending in the court Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25161 of 2012 (2) dt.23-07-2012 2/2 of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sikrahana at Motihari. 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 petitioners. 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.