Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30675 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Singh @ Awadh Kishore Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 20-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the father of the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after six years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the occurrence of 02.02.2011 the complaint was filed on 15.07.2011 which came to be registered as police on 27.04.2012 when the accusation is not specific against the petitioner. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30675 of 2012 (2) dt.20-09-2012 2/2 petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned CJM, Nalanda in connection with Harnaut P.S. Case No. 88 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.