Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5637 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pankaj Kumar 2. Summan Kumar. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 174 of the Indian Railway Act. It is alleged that when the informant being the member of the escort party in the train finding one person teasing to one passenger then he slapped him but on the subsequent station others aborted the train and made assault and snatched the money when the escort party resorted to firing when one of the persons was killed. The petitioners were not named in the F.I.R., their names subsequently, sprang up during investigation. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5637 of 2012 (2) dt.01-03-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners that their names subsequently sprang up only because they were the FIR witnesses of G.R.P. P.S. Case No. 48 of 2009 which was lodged against the informants’ side. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners, 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate Railway, Quel in connection with G.R.P. P.S. Case No. 49 of 2009, 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.