Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13368 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandeshwar Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The specific accusation has been levelled against Suraj Yadav to have opened fire and assaulted the informant with the butt of the gun and when alarm was raised by the informant, his brother Narayan Sah intervened when he was assaulted by Santosh Yadav, Kamalbati Devi, Ram Kumari Devi, Soniya Devi indiscriminately. Subsequently Narayan Sah succumbed to the injury. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was not named in the F.I.R. and specific accusation of assault to the deceased has been levelled against the F.I.R. named accused persons. Considering the fact that petitioner was not named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13368 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2 / 2 2 in the F.I.R. and specific accusation of assault to the deceased is against F.I.R. named accused, let the petitioner namely Chandeshwar Yadav, 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 Judicial Magistrate, Jhanjharpur, Madhubani in connection with Madhepur P.S. Case No. 74 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.