Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35266 of 2012 ====================================================== Bhapu Ansari @ Ejajudin & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-09-2012 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] . It is alleged that when the police went to investigate a case of dacoity-cum-murder in the house of Harbans Singh then the villagers pelted stones causing injury to five police personnels when the police resorted to two rounds of firing in air. It is submitted that when dacoity was committed in the house of Harbans Singh his wife was killed and police did not reach to the village then for delayed reaching of the police in the village the whole villagers protested for which frivolous case has been lodged. The statement has been made in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35266 of 2012 (2) dt.18-09-2012 2 / 2 2 paragraph no. 16 of the petition that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the accusation against the mob, let the petitioners Bhapu Ansari @ Ejajudin and Raju Miya @ Md. Nayajudin be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Jamhore P.S. Case No. 41 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Aurangabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.