Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31331 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Kundal Bind @ Ram Kundal Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture and performance of second marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the complainant whose alias name is Phulva Devi is the wife of one Saurabh Kumar, brother of the petitioner, which gets reflected from the informatory petition filed by Saurabh Kumar as contained in Annexure- 8 as well as voter list, as contained in Annexure-7, the LIC policy as contained in Annexure-6 and the survey records, as contained in Annexure-5. It is submitted by learned counsel for the complainant that all the documents which have been brought on record to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31331 of 2012 (2) dt.30-08-2012 2/2 suggest that the complainant is the wife of petitioner’s brother Saurabh Kumar are forged as the complainant’s name is Tetari Devi whereas the affidavit sworn by Saurabh Kumar reflects the alias name of the complainant as Phulva Devi. Without expressing any opinion about the identity of the complainant or about her alias name, considering the fact that the dispute is with regard to marriage, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Barbigha (Sheikhpura) P.S. Case No. 25 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.