Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8559 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Patel .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 19.10.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and section 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that in a cross firing, one STF constable died. It is submitted that there is no specific accusation of causing fire arm injury and other accused persons have been granted bail vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 7079 of 2009 and 8742 of 2009. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner 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 the learned Additional Sessions Judge, FTC I, Khagaria in S.C. No. 467A of 2010 arising out of Beldaur P.S. Case No. 52 of 2007. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8559 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 2 / 2 2 The learned court below will be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioner either in case he is found indulged in similar nature of offence or he defaults on three consecutive occasions. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 326

Statute Text:
Section 326 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 335, voluntarily causes grievous 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 for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.