Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7173 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Raj Kumar Yadav @ Raj Kumar Prasad 2. Deepak Kumar @ Tipu Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioners along with Yogendra Yadav and Ashok Yadav assaulted the informant. The informant had received three lacerated injuries, all the injuries have been found to be simple in nature whereas the petitioner Dipak Yadav also assaulted with farsa to surendra Yadav who received one lacerated and one swelling injuries, which have been found by the doctor to be simple in nature caused by hard and blunt substances. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is counter version of the occurrence also but that said Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7173 of 2012 (2) dt.12-03-2012 2 / 2 2 complaint was filed 11 days after lodging of the present case. It is further submitted that in the background of serious land dispute, the occurrence took place and from the injury report it does not appear that the accused persons had intention to kill anyone from the informant’s side. In the circumstance, the petitioners are ready to pay Rs. 10,000/- to the informant by depositing the same before the learned court below within a period of three weeks which will be released in favour of the informant and Surendra Yadav. Considering the stand of the petitioners, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawadah in connection with Nardiganj P.S. Case No. 98 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.