Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30976 of 2012 ====================================================== Shankar Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-08-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that on the order of this petitioner Lala Yadav sprinkle kerosene oil on the body of the aunt of the informant when Rajesh Yadav lit fire. Petitioner is the brother of the husband of the deceased. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that co-accused Lala Yadav and Mala Devi have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 42822 of 2011. Considering the same, let the petitioner namely Shankar Yadav, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30976 of 2012 (2) dt.30-08-2012 2 / 2 2 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with Jamalpur P.S. Case No. 69 of 2011. 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.