Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38636 of 2011 (3) dt.06-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38636 of 2011 ====================================================== Ravindra Singh, S/O-Kedar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 3 06-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Although, petitioner being father-in-law of the deceased is in jail custody since 26.08.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] but there is specific allegation against him that he along with his wife sprinkled kerosene oil on the person of the deceased and lit the fire. The statement of deceased was recorded in the hospital and the aforesaid statement is amount to dying declaration. Learned counsel for the petitioner challenged the genuineness of the aforesaid statement and submitted that, as a matter of fact, the aforesaid statement of the deceased is a manufactured document which is evident from Annexure-2, the injury report of the deceased. It is further submitted by him that deceased was not in a position to sign her statement and, therefore, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38636 of 2011 (3) dt.06-02-2012 the aforesaid fact creates doubt about the statement of the deceased. Although, learned counsel for the petitioner tried to convince me about the innocence of the petitioner but I am not at all convinced with the submission of learned counsel for the petitioner. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner in connection with Sikandra P.S. Case No. 143 of 2010 pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamui is, hereby, rejected. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.