Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1309 of 2012 ====================================================== Gupt Singh @ Gupteshwar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3(I) (X) of the of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusations are of making assault to the informant by five accused persons, abusing by calling caste name and committing theft. The occurrence took place in the background of some drainage dispute. It is submitted by learned counsel for the State that three simple injuries have been found caused by hard and blunt substance. It appears that the occurrence took place on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1309 of 2012 (3) dt.05-03-2012 2 / 2 2 30.07.2011 when the fard beyan was recorded on 03.08.2011 and the FIR was registered on 04.08.2011. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the above named petitioner, 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara in connection with Shahpur P.S. Case No. 143 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.