Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31942 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-11-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that in the night of 09.09.2010, Pawan Kumar Yadav and Gulo Sah assaulted the wife of the informant, attempted to establish forceful physical relationship and loaded them on a tractor when Mani Prasad Singh being owner of the vehicle came and assaulted the informant. It appears that petitioner was the I.O. for certain period of time of the aforesaid case when he found the accusation false against Mani Prasad Singh when DIG of Koshi Range gave oral direction to arrest Mani Prasad Singh but he did not arrest the said Mani Prasad Singh when he was divested from the power to investigate the case and on that basis he has been implicated in the present case. Considering the fact that petitioner has been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31942 of 2012 (3) dt.06-11-2012 2 / 2 2 implicated on the basis of non-compliance of the oral direction of the D.I.G, let the petitioner namely Ajay Kumar Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection with Sonbarsha Raj P.S. Case No. 78 of 2010. The bail bonds of the petitioner will be accepted on filing affidavit that he will cooperate in the investigation. Let the aforesaid affidavit be transmitted to the concerned I.O. by learned Court below. Non-cooperation in the investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 511

Statute Text:
Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code. Attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment, and in such attempt doing any act towards the commission of the offence. Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Code with imprisonment for life or imprisonment, or to cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of the offence, shall, where no express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such attempt, be punished with imprisonment of any description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-half of the imprisonment for life or, as the case may be, one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.