Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14605 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sunita Devi 2. Chameli Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 19-06-2012 Petitioners being sister and wife of the brother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] ., subsequently [STATUTE] . was also added. Accusation is of pouring kerosene oil by these petitioners and husband of the deceased and litting her on fire, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. The fardbeyan is based on the statement of the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation it has come that the victim was taken out from the room which was locked from inside which denies the accusation. Considering the fact that fardbeyan is the statement of the victim herself, this Court is not inclined to interfere, the application stands rejected. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner No. 1 namely Sunita Devi sympathetically and try Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14605 of 2012 (4) dt.19-06-2012 2 / 2 2 to dispose off the same on the same day, if petitioner No. 1 surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Hussainganj P.S. Case No. 198 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan. 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 petitioners. 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.