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: 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.