Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19924 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kari Miyan 2. Raziya Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 04-07-2012 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] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Subsequently [STATUTE] was also added. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand by putting her on fire. It is alleged against the petitioners that they were also present when the victim was being put on fire. This Court is not inclined to interfere Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19924 of 2012 (2) dt.04-07-2012 2/2 only because the case was instituted in 2005, but considering the fact that others have been granted regular bail, I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Harsidhi P.S. Case No. 68 of 2005 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate Sadar, Motihari. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (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.