Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1822 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Renu Devi 2. Mantu Bharati @ Matu Kumar Bharati 3. Urmila Devi. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 23-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. The petitioners being the sister, brother-in-law and the mother of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that all the accused persons in collusion and conspiracy burnt the informant when she was taken to P.M.C.H. for treatment. It is also alleged that from the hospital the victim was taken to her parents’ house by her father but from the F.I.R. it appears that treatment was being done at the behest of the in-laws family. It appears that earlier also with the same accusation, the case was lodged in which the petitioners were granted bail. It is submitted that the for the occurrence of 26.10.2010 the F.I.R. was lodged on 28.05.2011 Considering the inordinate delay in lodging the F.I.R. which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, 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 the 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, Chapra in connection with Dariyapur P.S. Case No. 95/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the 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.