Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15394 of 2012 ====================================================== Nitish Mahto @ Nitesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Uday Pratap Singh For the Informant : Mr. Uday Ban Singh For the State : Mr. J.K. Singh-1 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of giving repeating knife blow on the abdomen of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that informant got examined in some private hospital and for the occurrence of 20.03.2011 the complaint was filed on 22.06.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 01.08.2011. Delayed lodging of the complaint clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioner namely Nitish Mahto @ Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15394 of 2012 (2) dt.26-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Nitesh Kumar, 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, Siwan in connection with Daraunda(Siwan) P.S. Case No. 107 of 2011. 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.