Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14259 of 2012 ====================================================== Amit Chaudhary @ Amit Kumar Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged in the FIR that the informant was assaulted with Dab by Manish Chaudhary @ Chunnu twice causing injury on the head and left hand. One of the injuries has been found to be grievous. The petitioner was not named in the first information report but during investigation the informant in his statement has suggested that Manish Chaudhary was this petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14259 of 2012 (2) dt.23-04-2012 2/2 petitioner that Manish Chaudhary is the younger brother of the petitioner. The informant is his co-villager. The FIR was of 08.11.2011 when it was specifically named Manish Chaudhary and subsequently on 14.12.2011 protest petition was filed and in that also the same accusations were reiterated and after several months the informant tried to change his version when the informant was known to the petitioner. Considering the fact that in the FIR the accusation was not levelled against this petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Pupri at Sitamarhi in connection with Nanpur P.S. Case No. 188 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.