Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.358 of 2012 ====================================================== Devri Mahton .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 03-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being father of the husband is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation against the petitioner is of pouring kerosene oil when the husband lit the fire. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner no injury report is on record. The case diary was called for and the case diary also does not contain any injury report. Considering the fact that accusation of litting fire is against the husband, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.358 of 2012 (3) dt.03-04-2012 2 / 2 2 sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Naokothi P.S. Case No. 73/2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted by the learned court below on surrender of the husband. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 326

Statute Text:
Section 326 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 335, voluntarily causes grievous 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 for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.