Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14349 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sangita Devi, wife of Mintu Sharma, resident of Village-Bara, P.S. Rani Talab, District-Patna. 2. Mintu Sharma, Son of Devendra Singh, resident of Village-Bara, P.S. Rani Talab, District-Patna. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 18-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the married sister and brother-in-law of husband of deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case initially registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Subsequently, [STATUTE] . was also added. In the F.I.R. there is general accusation against the entire family members including the petitioners for making assault, inflicting torture for non-fulfillment of dowry demand and litting the victim on fire. The first statement of the victim was recorded in which she specifically alleged that fire was let by the husband and petitioner no.2 Mintu Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14349 of 2012 (3) dt.18-05-2012 2 / 2 2 Sharma. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that in the second statement the victim has not alleged anything of litting fire against petitioner no.2 also when the case under [STATUTE] . has been added by the Supervising Officer. Considering the fact that in the first statement the victim has alleged about litting fire against petitioner no.2, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to him. Since the victim has not alleged anything against petitioner no.1 in the first statement, let petitioner no.1 be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Rani Talab P.S. Case No. 56 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M., Danapur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.