Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21513 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shekhar Mahto @ Chandra Shekhar Kumar 2. Ram Chandra Mahto 3. Sita Ram Mahto 4. Shiv Bachan Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 26-06-2012 It is submitted that petitioner no. 2 has been arrested, hence, his application has become infructuous and accordingly, it is disposed of. Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioners were assaulted the informant and set on fire in vehicle. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the son of petitioner no. 3 has been crushed in the road accident and when the protest was Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21513 of 2012 (3) dt.26-06-2012 2/2 made the case was lodged. The petitioners are also named in the FIR. Considering the background in which protest being made by the petitioners, let the above named petitioners except petitioner no. 2 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 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, Jehanabad in connection with Jehanabad P.S. Case No. 34 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.