Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13948 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Md. Rustam 2. Md. Azaz Ahmad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 20-04-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to make correction in the name of petitioner no. 2. Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation of assault is against Azaz, Dokwa and Wahid. It is alleged against petitioner no. 2 that he was armed with spade whereas Wahid was armed with lathi. The specific case of the informant is that he received fracture injury on the hand as a result of lathi blow of Wahid, who is not the petitioner before this Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13948 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 2/2 Court and the son of the informant got grievous injury on the nose with sword. Admittedly these two petitioners are not armed with sword. There is counter version of the occurrence also and the petitioners’ side have also received injuries. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Sahebpur Kamal P.S. Case No. 204 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.