Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41416 of 2012 ====================================================== Dwarika Kushawaha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-11-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against 20 persons including the petitioner to have assaulted Sanjay Patel. Except one, all the injuries have been found to be simple when there is counter version of the occurrence also and the informant has subsequently retracted from the initial version. It is submitted that co-accused Hargobind Sonar @ Hargobind Sonar has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 32487 of 2012. This court sees no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Dhanaha P.S. Case No. 51 of 2012, pending in the Court Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41416 of 2012 (2) dt.30-11-2012 2 / 2 2 of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, West Champaran. 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.