Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5522 of 2012 (2) dt.28-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5522 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Sakal Rai & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The specific accusation of assault is against Rajeev Rai @ Rajeev Kumar being petitioner No. 4 who alleged to have caused grievous injury, though there is counter version of the occurrence also but this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner No. 4, hence the application of bail of petitioner No. 4 namely Rajeev Rai @ Rajeev Kumar stands rejected. Considering the general nature of accusation against petitioner Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, let the petitioners namely 1. Ram Sakal Rai 2. Ram Karan Rai 3. Upendra Rai 5. Dharm Nath Rai, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5522 of 2012 (2) dt.28-02-2012 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Bochahan P.S. Case No. 95 of 2011. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of petitioner No. 4, Rajeev Rai @ Rajeev Kumar, keeping in view the counter version of the occurrence and the fact that there is no accusation of repetition of blow. Shageer/- (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.