Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24966 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Muffasil P.S. Case No. 91 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 27 of the Arms Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger. The accusation is of firing on the brother of the informant. The injury report corroborates the accusation. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner without being prejudiced by the order of this Court. With the observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.