Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30725 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ramotar Prasad @ Ram Autar Mahto 2. Bishundeo Mahto 3. Balmiki Mahto 4. Laxmi Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 20-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 136 of the R.P. Act. It is alleged that about 100 people started pelting stones on the police patrolling party who were going to collect the ballot box during Panchayat Election when police resorted to firing when no injury was caused to anyone. The petitioners were not named in the FIR and subsequently their names surfaced. A statement has been made in para 11 that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent and others have been granted Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30725 of 2012 (2) dt.20-09-2012 2/2 anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 17244 of 2012 and 24067 of 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Gaya in connection with Khizar Sarai P.S. Case No. 50 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.