Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30071 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ravi Shankar Prasad @ Ravo Prasad 2. Rahul Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 24-08-2012 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 3 (1) (x) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The specific accusation of assaulting the informant with knife is against Ashutosh Kumar. It is also alleged that the accused persons abused the informant by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation of assault is not alleged against the petitioners. In view of this Court, it is a case for consideration of regular bail, if the petitioners surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30071 of 2012 (2) dt.24-08-2012 2/2 before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with SC/ST P.S. Case No. 06 of 2012 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (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.