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 for a term which may extend to 6 months, or with fine which may extend to $1,0002008$3,0002008, or with both.
Section history
Section 273 — Sale of noxious food or drink
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 273 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
Section 273 — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten (not yet redlined) — Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
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 for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 273]