Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21151 of 2012 (2) dt.11-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21151 of 2012 ====================================================== Tuntun Singh @ Diwarkar Rai son of Kanhaiya Singh, resident of village- Chilhar, P.S.-Itarhi, Dist.-Gaya. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-06-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] and section 27 of the Arms Act. The offence related to illegal escape of a renowned criminal from judicial custody after causing gun shot injury to a police personnel in court campus. It is contended that the petitioner is not named in the first information report and his name transpired in course of investigation. Having considered the serious nature of allegation in which name of the petitioner transpired, in confessional statement of a co-accused, as a person who conspired with other accused persons in committing the crime, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, prayer for grant of anticipatory bail is rejected. Md.S./- (Ashwani Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 333

Statute Text:
Section 333 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty. Whoever voluntarily causes grievous hurt to any person being a public servant in the discharge of his duty as such public servant, or with intent to prevent or deter that person or any other public servant from discharging his duty as such public servant, or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by that person in the lawful discharge of his duty as such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.