Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7046 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sumitra Devi, 2. Juri Sahni, 3. Ram Narayan Sahni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. A.K. Thakur, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Rina Sinha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of the Damage to Public Property Act. The accusation against the petitioners is to have assaulted the Home Guard constable Ashok Jha. The injuries are one abrasion and swelling and burning sensation. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the land in question was decreed in favour of these petitioners vide T.S. No. 22 of 2005. Thereafter, other side got a proceeding initiated by filing an application before the C.O. and the order of the C.O. was challenged before this court in C.W.J.C. No. 6832 of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7046 of 2012 (2) dt.13-03-2012 2 / 2 2 2011 when the C.O. was restrained from passing any order in the proceeding in view of the decision in the title suit. Then, the other side took shelter of the police who came on the same land for getting it vacated when the occurrence took place. Considering the background in which the alleged occurrence took place when the accusation is levelled against six named and about one hundred unknown persons, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhubani in connection with Rajnagar P.S. Case No. 119 /2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.