Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15914 of 2012 ====================================================== Niraj Mehta .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-05-2012 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] . The accusation is of entering into the house of the informant and assaulted Dinesh Mehta by means of Lathi, Bhala(spear) and Farsa and when the victim tried to save she was also assaulted. Subsequently Dinesh Mehta succumbed to injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that initially Pappu Mehta was charge sheeted and has been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 500 of 2011 since the informant has not supported the prosecution case. Pappu Mehta was earlier granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 21498 of 2011. It is further submitted Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15914 of 2012 (2) dt.01-05-2012 2 / 2 2 that others have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with K. Nagar P.S. Case No. 09 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C. J. M., Purnia. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 325

Statute Text:
Section 325 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 335, voluntarily causes grievous hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.