Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14235 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjeet Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-04-2012 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 27 of the Arms Act. In the FIR it is specifically alleged that the informant went on the roof of his house of hearing the gun sound firing he received gun shot injury on the chest when in the flash light he saw Sukho Singh armed with pistol, who was accompanied by this petitioner along with two unknown persons when it is alleged that for the flow of the drain water there was earlier dispute with his neighbour Sukho Singh. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14235 of 2012 (2) dt.23-04-2012 2/2 petitioner that admittedly the informant is not eye witness of firing and he only saw Sukho Singh armed with pistol whereas he has not seen this petitioner armed with any weapon and only one injury has been found, moreover, enmity has been alleged against Sukho Singh. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the 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, Begusarai in connection with Begusari Muffasil P.S. Case No. 109 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 324

Statute Text:
Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt by means of any instrument for shooting, stabbing or cutting, or any instrument which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, or by means of fire or any heated substance, or by means of any poison or any corrosive substance, or by means of any explosive substance or by means of any substance which it is deleterious to the human body to inhale, to swallow, or to receive into the blood, or by means of any animal, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.