Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15132 of 2012 ====================================================== Mantu Mishra .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. It is alleged that pulses were being carried on a tractor, which was suspected to be transported for smuggling and when the informant asked the accused persons to take the tractor to the police station, they pelted stones in which the informant and the police personnel received injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the pulse belongs to one Sadhu Mishra @ Shyam Charan Mishra, whereas the petitioner was owner of the tractor in question and accusation has been levelled on suspicion when no case under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act is made out. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15132 of 2012 (2) dt.24-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the nature of accusation, let the petitioner namely Mantu Mishra, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, West Champaran at Bettiah in connection with Inerwa P.S. Case No. 48 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.