Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6407 of 2012 ====================================================== Akhilesh Yadav@Gandhi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and section 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the petitioner, on the order of one Mithilesh Yadav, assaulted the husband of the informant with Garasa on the head and leg. The injury on the head has been found to be grievous due to hair line fracture on the pertial bond. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that there is counter version of the occurrence also and the petitioner has also received grievous injury by way of fracture on the right frontal bond of the head. Considering the fact that both sides received injuries, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6407 of 2012 (3) dt.04-04-2012 2 / 2 2 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur in connection with Bihta P.S. Case No. 187 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.