Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17597 of 2012 ====================================================== Praveen Sahni And Others .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-05-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation against the petitioners is that while meeting was going on in the office they entered into the office, damaged furniture and demanded extortion of Rs. 50,000/- when specific accusation of snatching Rs. 5000/- and Rs. 4000/- is against Prem Nath Das who is not petitioner before this Court. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that since protest was made due to the mal- functioning of the school against the headmaster, hence the present case has been lodged and it is apparent from Annexure-4 that on 29.03.2012 the villagers made a complaint to the Public Complaint Cell of Muzaffarpur Collectorate. It is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17597 of 2012 (2) dt.11-05-2012 2 / 2 2 further submitted that except one case against petitioner No. 1, other petitioners have clean antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Praveen Sahni 2. Birendra Paswan 3. Harendra Ram, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, West, Muzaffarpur in connection with Karja P.S. Case No. 43 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 323

Statute Text:
Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.