Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28153 of 2012 ====================================================== Ghanshyam Chaudhary @ Ghanshyam Kr. Chaudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.25197 of 2012 ====================================================== Sumit Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 18-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the mother-in-law of the informant executed the Will in favour of the informant’ wife as a result of which the brother-in- law of the informant was aggrieved when some proceeding under Section 188 of the Cr.P.C. was Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28153 of 2012 (3) dt.18-09-2012 2/3 initiated as a result of which the brother-in-law and the family members of the informant set the informant’s tractor and motorcycle on fire and subsequently, when the informant flee away from the scene it was conveyed by other daughter of the informant that another daughter of the informant was thrown in the fire as a result of which she died. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that so far throwing of the daughter of the informant in fire is concerned, it is not alleged against the petitioners, the same is apparent from the FIR itself, but the putting of tractor and motorcycle on fire is general against all the accused persons. It is further submitted that the petitioners does not belong to the family of the brother-in-law of the informant. Considering the nature of accusation, let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners, keeping in view of the fact that other daughter of the informant has admitted that these petitioners were not involved in killing the daughter of the informant and the accusation of putting the tractor and motorcycle on fire is against all the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28153 of 2012 (3) dt.18-09-2012 3/3 accused persons, if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Tisiauta P.S. Case No. 80 of 2011 pending in the court of learned CJM, Vaishali at Hajipur. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (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.