Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18051 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Anuj Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 15-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. The accusation against the petitioner is of causing injury by pistol to the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the case was instituted in 1985 and charge sheet was submitted in 1986 but the petitioner could not surrender since he was working outside of the State and never any summon was served or warrant was executed and in fact no injury was caused to the informant and above all the petitioner is partially paralyzed. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18051 of 2012 (2) dt.15-05-2012 2/2 This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner only because the case was instituted in 1985, let the learned court below consider all the contentions of the petitioner including his medical condition if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Sessions Trial No. 178 of 1990 arising out of Barauni P.S. Case No. 228 of 1985 pending in the court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No. IV, Begusarai and prays for regular bail. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.