Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20352 of 2012 ====================================================== Navin Kumar Rai @ Navin Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 10-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. The accusation against the petitioner is of causing firearm injury on the lower portion of the abdomen of the husband of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is counter version of the occurrence also and the accusation is not corroborated by medical opinion whereas it is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the petitioner is the main assailant. This Court is not inclined to grant Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20352 of 2012 (2) dt.10-07-2012 2/2 anticipatory bail to the petitioner in connection with Dariyapur P.S. Case No. 186 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail prayer of the petitioner without being prejudiced by the order of this Court. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. DKS/ (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.