Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4452 of 2012 (2) dt.10-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4452 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pir Mohammad Gaddi, S/O Late Shahid Gaddi R/O Village - Badarawa, P.S. Yogapatti, District - West Champaran. 2. Bhagelu Chaudhary, S/O Late Gopal Chaudhary, R/O Village - Badarawa, P.S. Yogapatti, District - West Champaran. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioners : Mr. Umesh Chandra Verma, Advocate. For the Opposite Party : Mr. Ajay Kumar-I, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-02-2012 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] . The accusation is of lifting sari of informant with an intention to establish forceful physical relationship. For the occurrence of 02.09.2011, F.I.R. was lodged on 11.09.2011 whereas at earlier point of time petitioners’ side lodged a case against the informant under [STATUTE] . Delayed lodging of the F. I. R. clouds the bonafide of accusation, let the petitioners, above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4452 of 2012 (2) dt.10-02-2012 named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Yogapatti P.S. Case No. 288 of 2011 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 C.J.M. Bettiah, West Champaran, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.