Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41745 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Prasad @ Sri Ram Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Mairwa (Jeeradei) P.S. Case No. 100 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 47 (a) of the Excise Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan. Huge quantity of liquor and packing materials were recovered from the joint family house of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the recovery has been made from the joint family house but different seizure list has been prepared from different areas in order to involve the entire family members. In view of this Court, it is fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41745 of 2012 (2) dt.05-12-2012 2/2 weeks. With the above 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: 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.