Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25338 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijendra Raj .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the husband of the informant received fire arm injury by some unknown persons. Suspicion was raised against this petitioner when this petitioner developed some intimacy with the daughter of the informant and given threatening for marriage. It is submitted by learned counsels for the informant and the State that the victim after giving consciousness, named this petitioner as an assailant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that paragraph no. 25 of the case diary Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25338 of 2012 (3) dt.04-09-2012 2 / 2 2 reflects further statement of the victim which suggests that the victim conveyed to the informant that firing was resorted to by this petitioner when the victim is unable to speak before injury caused. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. His prayer for anticipatory bail application is rejected in connection with Wazirganj P.S. Case No. 279 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Gaya. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.