Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18295 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Balister Bhagat @ Balister Kushwaha 2. Prabhu Bhagat @ Prabhunath Singh. 3. Jayshri Ram @ Shastri Ram .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 13-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that for cutting the branches of the tree for cremation of the dead body of Baharan Sah, the FIR named accused persons made assault to Rajendra Bhagat (informant), and one Santosh Bhagat, subsequently, Rajendra Bhagat succumbed to the injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that though, the petitioners are the co-villagers of the informant but they were not named in the FIR when in the FIR there is specific accusation of assault against eight named accused persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the State that during investigation, the witnesses have named these petitioners as Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18295 of 2012 (3) dt.13-07-2012 2/2 associates of the assailants. Considering the fact that the petitioners were not named in the FIR, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Nautan P.S. Case No. 68 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.