Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1822 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Renu Devi 2. Mantu Bharati @ Matu Kumar Bharati 3. Urmila Devi. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 23-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. The petitioners being the sister, brother-in-law and the mother of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that all the accused persons in collusion and conspiracy burnt the informant when she was taken to P.M.C.H. for treatment. It is also alleged that from the hospital the victim was taken to her parents’ house by her father but from the F.I.R. it appears that treatment was being done at the behest of the in-laws family. It appears that earlier also with the same accusation, the case was lodged in which the petitioners were granted bail. It is submitted that the for the occurrence of 26.10.2010 the F.I.R. was lodged on 28.05.2011 Considering the inordinate delay in lodging the F.I.R. which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chapra in connection with Dariyapur P.S. Case No. 95/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.