Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22847 of 2012 ====================================================== Kari Thakur & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and ¾ of the Prevention of Damages of Public Property Act. It is alleged that one person crushed in an accident dashed by a tanker when driver of tanker fled away when N.H. was blocked by mob and when the police reached at the spot mob raised slogan and pelted stones when 16 persons were identified and named. It is submitted that there is general accusation against the mob when no substantial injury was caused. Considering the accusation against the mob Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22847 of 2012 (2) dt.29-06-2012 2 / 2 2 let the petitioners, Kari Thakur and Azad Mian be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Ramgarhwa P.S. Case No. 17 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned S.D.J.M., Raxaul at Motihari, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.