Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23772 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramod Chaudhary & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== =================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1)(x)(xi) of the S.C./S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities)Act. The accusations are of making assault in the background of cutting a Mango tree from the land of the informant, snatching Rs. 500/- and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted that petitioners are owners of the land hence Mango tree was cut by the petitioners. Subsequently 107 Cr.P.C. proceeding has also been initiated between the parties. Considering the accusation in the background of land dispute, let the petitioners Pramod Chaudhary, Ganesh Chaudhary, Tuntun Chaudhary, Ratan Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23772 of 2012 (2) dt.17-07-2012 2 / 2 2 Chaudhary, Laddu Lal Chaudhary @ Laddu Choudhary and Dipak Kumar @ Dipak Chaudhary be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Begusarai SC/ST P.S. Case No. 01 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Begusarai, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.