Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8493 of 2012 ====================================================== Liyakat Ali .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh For the State : Mr. Sanjay Kumar Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-03-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of causing knife injury on the head of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no accusation of repetition of blow and injury has been found to be simple. It is further submitted that for the occurrence of 22.08.2011 the F.I.R. was lodged on 16.10.2011. In view of this Court, delayed lodging of the F.I.R. constitutes a very good ground for consideration of regular bail. Let learned Court below consider the same, preferably on the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8493 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 2 / 2 2 same day, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Panapur P.S. Case No. 77 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran, Chapra. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.