Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20262 of 2012 ====================================================== Santosh Kumar Yadav @ Dharma Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 31-07-2012 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 3(1) (iv) (x) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of snatching silver chain, causing injury and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner is a student and for petty dispute the petitioner has implicated in the present case. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20262 of 2012 (3) dt.31-07-2012 2/2 period of six weeks from today in connection with Buxar (T) P.S. Case No. 136 of 2010 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.