Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29690 of 2012 (2) dt.17-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29690 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mahendra Jha, 2. Sanjay Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusations are of making assault to the daughter of the informant with sickle, snatching jewelleries worth Rs.12000 and abusing by calling the caste name. It is submitted that there is counter version of the occurrence also. The petitioner no. 1 filed a case on 5.12.2010 whereas the present FIR has been lodged on 6.12.2010 and the offence under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has not been committed in public view. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29690 of 2012 (2) dt.17-08-2012 petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Samastipur in connection with Samastipur SC/ST P.S. Case No. 57 of 2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.