Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15206 of 2012 (3) dt.02-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15206 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pankaj Thakur S/O Late Satya Narayan Thakur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 3 02-07-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 27.12.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. There is specific allegation against the petitioner that he threw acid causing acid injury to the informant and his other family members and also committed loot and made firing in the air. The contention on behalf of the petitioner is that only three persons sustained injury in the alleged occurrence and the wife of the informant sustained simple injury and so far as injury of the informant and his son is concerned, the complete injury report was not collected by the Investigating Officer and without collecting the complete injury report, he submitted charge-sheet Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15206 of 2012 (3) dt.02-07-2012 for the above stated offences. It is further contended by him that as a matter of fact, petitioner and informant are full brother and a dispute of partition was going on between the parties. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in connection with Pirpainti P.S. Case No. 222 of 2009. SHAHZAD/- (Hemant Kumar Srivastava, 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.