Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22822 of 2012 ====================================================== Ravindra Kumar Jha & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-06-2012 Petitioners being agnates of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that accused persons dragged the informant and demanded Rs. 80,000/- which were used in the shradh of mother of Ajay Kumar Jha who is own brother of the informant, when Ajay Kumar Jha made assault with farsa on the head of the informant and also assaulted informant’s wife and son and all accused persons took away cash of Rs. 10,000/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that specific accusation of assault is against Ajit Kumar Jha. The injury has been found to be simple and under bona fide family dispute, the accusation has been levelled in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22822 of 2012 (2) dt.28-06-2012 2 / 2 2 which all the family members have been roped in the present case. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the Ajay Kumar Jha, let the petitioners namely 1. Ravindra Kumar Jha 2. Nitish Kumar Jha 3. Indu Devi 4. Priyanka Kumari, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Hajipur Sadar P.S. Case No. 51 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 308

Statute Text:
Section 308 of the Indian Penal Code. Attempt to commit culpable homicide. 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 culpable homicide not amounting to murder, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both; and, if hurt is caused to any person by such act, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.