Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5421 of 2012 ====================================================== Amit Kumar @ Amit Kumar Shahi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the nephew of the informant is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 27 of the Arms Act. The accusations are of demand of ransom of Rs. 2,00,000/- and resorting to firing. Admittedly no injury has been caused nor any payment of ransom has been made. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there was some dispute with regard to the execution of the lease deed between the parties and others have been granted anticipatory bail in the matter. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5421 of 2012 (2) dt.27-02-2012 2 / 2 2 named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, West Muzaffarpur in connection with Kanti P.S. Case No. 95 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.