Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23015 of 2012 ====================================================== Pratap Kumar @ Pratap Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the nephew of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that Lala Yadav pored kerosene oil on the victim when Rakesh Yadav lit the fire. It appears that subsequently, the victim succumbed to the injury. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that [STATUTE] has not been added till date and there is counter case also and Lala Yadav, against whom specific overt act has been alleged, has been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 42822 of 2011 considering the fact that the place of occurrence has been doubted by the investigating agency. It is further submitted that there is no overt act alleged against this petitioner. Considering the fact that there is no specific overt act Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23015 of 2012 (2) dt.03-07-2012 2/2 alleged against the petitioner and Lala Yadav, against whom, specific overt act has been alleged, has been granted anticipatory bail, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in connection with Jamalpur P.S. Case No. 69 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.