Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11093 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Nihal & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 28-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Subsequently, [STATUTE] . was also added. The accusation is of assault by petitioners and 8-10 persons to uncle of the informant who subsequently succumbed to injuries. It is also alleged that accused persons assaulted the informant. It is submitted that F.I.R. was lodged after six days of occurrence. Hence it caused delay in lodging of the F.I.R. The accusation is omnibus and general and during investigation it has come that the victim received head injury in an accident. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11093 of 2012 (4) dt.28-06-2012 2 / 2 2 informant that the accusation is of assault against the petitioners and the informant also received grieveous injury. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Let the learned court below consider prayer for regular bail of the petitioners Md. Nihal and Md. Belal if they surrender within six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Salkhua P.S. Case No. 81 of 2011, G.R. No. 921 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Saharsa. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioners. 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.