Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8870 of 2012 ====================================================== Shiv Muni Paswan & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the father, brother and brother’s wife of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The alleged date of occurrence is of March, 2009 when accusation is of torture and assault by petitioner no.3 Janki Devi by bricks. For occurrence of March, 2009, complaint was lodged on 02.02.2010 which came to be registered as police case on 19.09.2011 when the victim died in 2011. It is submitted that accusation has been levelled in the background of partition dispute. Considering delayed lodging of F.I.R., let the petitioners, Shiv Muni Paswan, Sudarshan Paswan and Janaki Devi, be released on bail in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8870 of 2012 (2) dt.26-03-2012 2 / 2 2 arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kargahar P.S. Case No. 153 of 2011 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. Rohtas at Sasaram, 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: 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.