Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.576 of 2012 ====================================================== Shankar Manjhi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 23-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 15.09.2011 in connection with Ekma P.S. Case No. 102 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran. It is alleged against the petitioner and one Ishwar Manjhi to have caused injury on the neck of the informant. The accusation gets corroborated from the injury report. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that since the victim had illicit relationship with the girl of the scheduled castes community hence the occurrence took place. Considering the nature of accusation, this Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.576 of 2012 (3) dt.23-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner at present. Accordingly the prayer for bail is rejected. The petitioner is at liberty to renew his prayer for bail after framing of charge. Amrendra/- (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.