Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7438 of 2011 ====================================================== Ramayan Giri son of Ram Pukar Giri, resident of village-Rampur-Khajuria, P.S.-Dumariya Ghat, District-East Champaran .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Uma Kant Shukla, Advocate Mr. Sushil Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. L.K.Sharma, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHIVAJI PANDEY ORAL ORDER 2 30-04-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. The present case is arising from Dumariya Ghat P.S. Case No. 43 of 2008 whereby the court below has taken cognizance under [STATUTE] . Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that it is a simple altercation and no case of [STATUTE] . is made out. However, the parties have already settled the dispute outside the Court and a compromise application was filed before the court below which is pending. After some argument, the counsel for the petitioner prays to withdraw with application. The prayer is allowed and this petition is dismissed as withdrawn. Mahesh/- (Shivaji Pandey, 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.