Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13407 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Abhay Singh 2. Bhim Singh @ Prakash Kumar Gautam. 3. Sonu Singh @ Anand Kumar 4. Bala Singh @ Dharamraj Kumar Singh. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3 (I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation against the petitioners is that when the informant was constructing the hut on the land on which he was residing since last 14-15 years, the petitioners objected when Sonu put the half constructed hut on fire and abused the informant by calling caste name and also committed theft. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that on the government land the hut was being constructed when it is simply objected by the petitioners and in order make accusation serious the informant himself put the constructed hut on fire when the accusation under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13407 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2/2 general against others. Considering the nature of accusation in the back ground of the land dispute, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj, Rohtas in connection with Sanjhauli P.S. Case No. 44 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.