Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13438 of 2012 ====================================================== Mukesh Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in connection with Patepur P.S. Case No. 67 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that though, the informant, in First Information Report, stated that the victim conveyed him about putting her on fire by this petitioner but the informant has filed a petition before the learned court below retracting from his initial version and for the occurrence of 03.06.2011 the FIR was lodged on 13.06.2011. In view of this Court, it is fit ground for consideration of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13438 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2/2 regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.