Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35369 of 2012 ====================================================== Raju Sahni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 15-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Prevention of Witchcraft Practices Act. Accusations are of making assault, causing burnt injury by acid and calling the informant’s side witch. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that except one other injuries have been found to be simple when there is counter version of the occurrence also. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Minapur P.S. Case No. 337 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35369 of 2012 (3) dt.15-10-2012 2 / 2 2 Magistrate, Muzaffarpur. 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 petitioner. 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.