Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7395 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pintu Kumar @ Ravikant Kumar @ Ravikant Gupta, 2. Sita Prasad Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is specifically alleged against the petitioner no. 1 to have caused injury on the head of the informant by Dabia though the injury was found to be simple. Considering the aforesaid facts, this court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner no. 1 above named. His prayer for anticipatory bail is rejected. However, let the learned court below consider the prayer of petitioner no. 1 for regular bail in case he surrenders within six weeks from today keeping in view that the injury has been found to be simple. So far as petitioner no. 2 is concerned, since there is no specific accusation against him, let the above named petitioner Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7395 of 2012 (2) dt.14-03-2012 2 / 2 2 no. 2 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, West Champaran, Bettiah in connection with Bettiah Town P.S. Case No. 453 /2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.