Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16922 of 2011 (3) dt.11-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No. 16922 of 2011 ====================================================== Prince Kumar @ Prince Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 11-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This is a petition for grant of anticipatory bail in a case under [STATUTE] . There is specific allegation of assault and abuse and thereafter throwing acid. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is a case and counter case and both the parties have received injury. However, under the facts and circumstances of the case, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. However, if the petitioner may surrender and pray for regular bail then that may be considered on its own merit without being prejudiced by this order. kundan/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.