Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12170 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Balindra Sah 2. Amit Sah @ Amit Kumar. 3. Krishna Sah. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 09-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in connection with Mehsi P.S. Case NO. 135 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari. The accusation is of assault by knife on the neck and chest of the informant. The injury has been found 9” deep. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the occurrence took place in the night and the informant has retracted from his initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. Considering the general accusation against three persons and retracted version of the informant, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12170 of 2012 (2) dt.09-04-2012 2/2 Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (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.