Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20465 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Awatar Singh .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner took grocery for Rs. 10,000/- and milk for Rs. 12,000/- on credit but the same was not paid and when the informant demanded the said amount she was assaulted. It is submitted that earlier the complaint was filed by the petitioner against the complainant in which cognizance had been taken against the complainant and for accusation of 16.04.2011 the complaint was filed on 18.04.2011. Considering the same, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20465 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 2 / 2 2 arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case No. 327 (C) of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Buxar, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.