Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8759 of 2012 ====================================================== Jitendra Tiwary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 25-06-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of putting the wife on fire, for non- fulfilment of dowry demand. Petitioner is ready to keep O.P. No. 2 as wife with full dignity and honour and get her treated. The offer is acceptable to O.P. No. 2 being wife who is present before this Court. In the circumstance, petitioner undertakes to take the O.P. No. 2 from the Court itself to her matrimonial house. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Jitendra Tiwary, in the event of his 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. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8759 of 2012 (3) dt.25-06-2012 2 / 2 2 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Bheldi P.S. Case No. 79 of 2010. If the petitioner fails to comply the undertaking, O.P. No. 2 will be at liberty to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. 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.