Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3474 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is languishing in jail since 23.8.2011 in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner to have given a dagger blow on the abdomen of the informant and taken out rupees eight thousand five hundred. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the occurrence was of 10.9.2008 when the fardbeyan was recorded on 15.9.2008 and the FIR was registered on 1.10.2008. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that since the informant was seriously injured, hence, the fardbeyan was recorded after five days of the occurrence. It is further submitted on behalf of the petitioner that investigation is complete. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3474 of 2012 (2) dt.27-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR and the fact that there is no repetition of the blow, 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 C.J.M. Sitamarhi in Sitamarhi P.S. Case no. 505 of 2008. 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.