Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12204 of 2012 ====================================================== Bachnu Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making assault by the petitioner and four other persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is ore than 65 years of age and undertakes to appear on each and every date and there is accusation of making assault by several persons. However, in view of the fact that others have been convicted in the case, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the learned court below consider the prayer of the petitioner for regular bail keeping in view the advanced age of the petitioner and the fact that general accusation has been levelled against the accused persons in case Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12204 of 2012 (2) dt.12-04-2012 2 / 2 2 he surrenders within six weeks from today in connection with Mahishi P.S. Case no. 48 of 2007 pending in the court of C.J.M., Saharsa This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. Anil/- (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.