Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20667 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ramanand Mandal S/O Maneshwar Mandal Resident Of Village- Bishnupur, P.S.- Dhamdaha, District- Purnea 2. Baleshwar Mandal @ Bullet Mandal S/O Sri Maneshwar Mandal Resident Of Village- Bishnupur, P.S.- Dhamdaha, District- Purnea .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== 2 07-06-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. Petitioners are accused for offences punishable under [STATUTE] as well as section 27 of the Arms Act. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that there are six accused persons according to the F.I.R. and the allegation is that two of them, including the petitioner fired at the informant and his brother, but the injuries are on non-vital parts, namely elbows of both the injured persons. Learned counsel for the petitioners states that they have got no criminal antecedent and they have been falsely implicated only because of land dispute as the informant and his men were trying to force the petitioners to withdraw the said case. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this petition is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20667 of 2012 (2) dt.07-06-2012 2 allowed. Let petitioners above named be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000.00 (Rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection with Dhamdaha P.S. Case No. 14 of 2012 corresponding to G.R. No.519 of 2012. Harish/- (S.N. Hussain, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 307

Statute Text:
Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code. Attempt to murder. Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge, and under such circumstances that, if he by that act caused death, he would be guilty of murder, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine; and, if hurt is caused to any person by such act, the offender shall be liable either to imprisonment for life, or to such punishment as is hereinbefore mentioned. Attempts by Life Convicts: When any person offending under this section is under sentence of imprisonment for life, he may, if hurt is caused, be punished with death.