Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42332 of 2012 (2) dt.07-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42332 of 2012 ====================================================== Hashmat Ali .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 07-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner to have given lathi blow causing bleeding injury on the ear of the informant when Mohsin Akhtar, Mohib Ansari and Dr. Ajhar Ali came to save him Zakir Hussain give Farsa blow to Mohsin Akhtar and thereafter others assaulted them with lahti, danda and Farsa and Gulam Aquib snatched gold chain from the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner lodged Mashrak P.S. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42332 of 2012 (2) dt.07-12-2012 Case No. 188 of 2012 on 20.08.2012 when the present case has been lodged on 24.08.2012 and after four days of the occurrence the injury has been treated to be grievous. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the injured was examined at PMCH and on the basis which the injury has been treated to be grievous. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Mashrak P.S. Case No. 191 of 2012 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra. 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 petitioner. 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.