Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5637 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pankaj Kumar 2. Summan Kumar. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 174 of the Indian Railway Act. It is alleged that when the informant being the member of the escort party in the train finding one person teasing to one passenger then he slapped him but on the subsequent station others aborted the train and made assault and snatched the money when the escort party resorted to firing when one of the persons was killed. The petitioners were not named in the F.I.R., their names subsequently, sprang up during investigation. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5637 of 2012 (2) dt.01-03-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners that their names subsequently sprang up only because they were the FIR witnesses of G.R.P. P.S. Case No. 48 of 2009 which was lodged against the informants’ side. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate Railway, Quel in connection with G.R.P. P.S. Case No. 49 of 2009, 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.