Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24121 of 2012 ====================================================== Dukhi Bhagat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.24244 of 2012 ====================================================== Laxuman Bhagat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 30-07-2012 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] . It is alleged that Sundari Devi gave a sickle blow to the sister of the informant when it is alleged that petitioner Laxuman Bhagat assaulted the father of the informant and Vishwanath Bhagat with Farsa. The injury report of the father of the informant reflects three injuries. The injuries have found to be simple caused by Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24121 of 2012 (2) dt.30-07-2012 2/2 hard and blunt substance. The accusation against petitioner Dukhi Bhagat that he was instigating the assailants to make assault. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that earlier point of time the father of the informant is being prosecuted under [STATUTE] at the hands of the petitioners and subsequently the present case has been filed by the informant. 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, West Champaran, Bettiah in connection with Bettiah Muffasil P.S. Case No. 07 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.