Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9696 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Mustaque .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of attempt to establish forceful physical relationship with the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the specific date of occurrence has not been mentioned in the first information report where it has been stated that the occurrence took place two days prior to the previous election when the FIR was lodged on 08.09.2011 whereas the father of the petitioner lodged a complaint case on 03.08.2011. But from the FIR itself Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9696 of 2012 (2) dt.29-03-2012 2/2 it appears that the FIR was lodged by the informant after considerable time since there was some reconciliation is going on where the petitioner promise to marry whereas it is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is a married person and has several children and from the allegation in the first information report at best a case under [STATUTE] is made out as prima facie case under [STATUTE] appears to be doubtful. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in connection with Raniganj P.S. Case No. 224 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 511

Statute Text:
Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code. Attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment, and in such attempt doing any act towards the commission of the offence. Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Code with imprisonment for life or imprisonment, or to cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of the offence, shall, where no express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such attempt, be punished with imprisonment of any description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-half of the imprisonment for life or, as the case may be, one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.