Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30071 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ravi Shankar Prasad @ Ravo Prasad 2. Rahul Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 24-08-2012 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] and 3 (1) (x) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The specific accusation of assaulting the informant with knife is against Ashutosh Kumar. It is also alleged that the accused persons abused the informant by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation of assault is not alleged against the petitioners. In view of this Court, it is a case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioners surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30071 of 2012 (2) dt.24-08-2012 2/2 before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with SC/ST P.S. Case No. 06 of 2012 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (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.