Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36587 of 2012 ====================================================== Munna Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-09-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of assaulting the informant with axe on his left hand elbow and wrist. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that only one lacerated injury has been found which was found to be grievous, caused by hard and blunt substance when the case lodged by the petitioner’s side was at earlier point of time. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that injury has been found to be grievous. Considering the fact that accusation is of making assault with axe when only one injury has been found caused by hard and blunt substance, let the petitioner namely Munna Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36587 of 2012 (2) dt.26-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Rai, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara in connection with Charpokhari P.S. Case No. 82 of 2012. 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.