Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27942 of 2012 ====================================================== Naga Das & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusations are of abusing and assaulting the informant and his child for pressuring to withdraw the case earlier lodged by the informant. It is submitting by learned counsel for the petitioners that for a piece of land both sides are litigating since long and there is no injury caused to the informant and the injury report of the informant’s son reflects marginal size injury simple in nature. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Naga Das, Mahesh Das, Rani Devi and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27942 of 2012 (2) dt.07-08-2012 2 / 2 2 Santosh Das be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kazimohammadpur P.S. Case No. 84 of 2012 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. Muzaffarpur, 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: 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.