Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.662 of 2012 Siya Ram Sahni Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 10.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being brother-in-law of the informant, is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of entering into the house and lifting the clothes of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on mere assuming the accusation, no case under [STATUTE] is made out. Moreover, for the occurrence of 17.9.2011, the FIR was lodged on 19.9.2011. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M. Madhubani in Bisphi (Patauna) P.S. Case No. 247 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 511

Statute Text:
Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code. Attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment, and in such attempt doing any act towards the commission of the offence. Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Code with imprisonment for life or imprisonment, or to cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of the offence, shall, where no express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such attempt, be punished with imprisonment of any description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-half of the imprisonment for life or, as the case may be, one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.