Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.408 of 2012 ====================================================== Sohil .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 10-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner being the brother-in-law of the informant is apprehending his arrest in connection with Jokihat P.S. Case No. 142 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] and Section 27 of the Arms Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria. The accusation is of causing firearm injury on the chest of the informant and on the right thumb of his father. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that both sides have settled the dispute. Considering the fact that grievous injury was caused, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner, however let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner keeping in view that the informant has retracted from his initial version. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Amrendra Kumar/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 326

Statute Text:
Section 326 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 335, voluntarily causes grievous 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 for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.