Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18980 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravi Shankar Prasad Singh @ Ravi Shankar Pd. Singh .... .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE JYOTI SARAN ORAL ORDER 02 12-06-2012 Heard the parties. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in Complaint Case No. 1157 of 2006 for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner having done his schooling at Netarhat Vidyalay and his college from St. Columbas College, Hazaribagh, he joined the faculty of law in the University of Delhi and has also obtained a Law Degree. It is submitted that the petitioner is also engaged with the social/developmental activities with the Bihar Agricultural University, Pusa. It is stated that the case in question and some other cases are of the period when the petitioner was elected as a Mukhiya of the local Gram Panchayat and when disgruntled elements instituted not less than 8 cases against him in between 2003 and 2006 and the case in question is in the same chain. It is submitted that the allegation as set out in the complaint Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18980 of 2012 (2) dt.12-06-2012 2 manifests that the allegations are ornamental and have been instituted after considerable delay. It is submitted that the police upon investigation has submitted final form holding the allegation untrue against the petitioner in most of the cases. Regard being had to the submission of the learned counsel and the materials on record, let the petitioner Ravi Shankar Prasad Singh @ Ravi Shankar Pd. Singh in the event of his arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks from receipt/production of a copy of this order be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10, 000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur, in Complaint Case No. 1157 of 2006, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Ravi/- (Jyoti Saran, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 323

Statute Text:
Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.