Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27356 of 2012 ====================================================== Ranveer Singh @ Ranveer Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Maniyahari P.S. Case No. 22 of 2002 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Muzaffarpur. It is alleged that for ploughing the land of the informant, dispute arose when Mahesh Singh kicked on the abdomen of the informant as a result of which the pregnancy of the informant got terminated. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation of assault is not against the petitioner and the informant has subsequently retracted from his initial version. Since the case was instituted in the year 2002, this Court is not inclined to interfere. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27356 of 2012 (2) dt.03-08-2012 2/2 the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks keeping in view of the fact that the accusation of assault is not against the petitioner and the informant has retracted from his initial version. 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 petitioner. 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.