Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5473 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Naveen Kumar Singh S/O Bhola Singh R/O Vill Sugia Katsari, P.S.& Distt-Sheohar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is languishing in custody since 25.11.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that this petitioner took the informant by administering some intoxicant to Delhi and established forceful physical relationship on 07.10.2010 but when the father, brother and others of the petitioner reached Delhi and requested to return home when the informant insisted for the marriage and on assurance of the marriage she came to Muzaffarpur when on the order of Bhola Singh all accused persons assaulted the victim subsequently she found herself in hospital. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that the injury report is not on the record and the informant is in habit of lodging such cases and marrying one after another. In support to that the documents have been brought on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5473 of 2012 (2) dt.27-02-2012 2/2 record. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR and the inconsistency in the statement of the informant in the fard-beyan itself, let the above named petitioner, 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sheohar at Sitamarhi in connection with Sheohar P.S. Case No. 151 of 2010.- DKS/ (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.