Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14773 of 2012 ====================================================== Tanik Singh & Anr .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. The accusation is of firing by certain persons. The informant and other injured received two fire arm injuries each. Injury of both injured have been found to be simple. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioners that in the F.I.R. it is not specified that whose firing actually hit the informant and other injured. Both sides are agnates when 107 Cr. P.C. proceeding is going on from before and the petitioners were known to the informant hence there was no occasion for not specifying the name of actual assailant in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14773 of 2012 (2) dt.23-04-2012 2 / 2 2 F.I.R. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that informant and other injured have supported the prosecution case in their subsequent statements before the police. Considering the fact that accusation has been levelled in the background of serious land dispute and F.I.R. does not suggest specific accusation, let the petitioners, Tanik Singh and Devendra Singh, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Sikandra P.S. Case No. 134 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Jamui, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.