Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28054 of 2012 (3) dt.27-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28054 of 2012 ====================================================== Jawahar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 28-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being father of the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Subsequently [STATUTE] was also added. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after six years of the marriage. It is submitted that during supervision made by the higher police officer, the accidental case was found as suggested by the defence when the victim in her statement has alleged the abuse and demand of dowry against this petitioner also. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner in case the petitioner surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with Rani Talab P.S. Case no. 56 of 2011 pending in the court of learned A.C.J.M., Danapur. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28054 of 2012 (3) dt.27-09-2012 observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. Anil/- (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.