Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16393 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kalawati Devi 2. Leelawati Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.17898 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shatrughan Singh 2. Santan Singh 3. Udit Kumar @ Udit Kumar Singh 4. Chhotu Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 04-05-2012 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] . Subsequently [STATUTE] was also added. The accusation of assault has been levelled against six persons including the petitioners to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16393 of 2012 (2) dt.04-05-2012 2/3 informant, informant’s wife, Rina Devi, who is the deceased and the sister of the informant. The injury report of deceased Rina Devi suggests only one lacerated injury on the occipital region. The post-mortem suggests that was the cause of death. The injury report of other injured Meeli Kumari suggests that she has received two injuries, one lacerated injury and the other is swelling. The injury report of the informant suggests one lacerated injury. The photo copy of the injury reports has been produced, let the same be kept on record. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioners that from the accusation levelled it cannot be said that the accused persons had any intention to kill and it cannot be said out of the six persons whose assault caused injury to the deceased as she has received only one injury. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16393 of 2012 (2) dt.04-05-2012 3/3 satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Barun P.S. Case No. 15 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: 323

Statute Text:
Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.