Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3962 of 2012 ====================================================== Uma Shanker Kewat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-02-2012 Petitioner is languishing in custody since 24.08.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The case of the informant is that the petitioner wanted to assault the informant but the injury was caused to the minor son of the informant. The injury has been found to be grievous. Considering the fact that as per the informant’s own admission the petitioner had no intention to assault the son of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3962 of 2012 (2) dt.13-02-2012 2 / 2 2 the informant, let the petitioner namely Uma Shanker Kewat, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection with Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 257 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.