Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9967 of 2012 ====================================================== Munna Kumar Bharti .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-03-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusations are of torture and attempt to kill the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that no injury was caused and petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the aforesaid stand of the parties, let the petitioner namely Munna Kumar Bharti, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9967 of 2012 (2) dt.30-03-2012 2 / 2 2 satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Daudpur P.S. Case No. 94 of 2011. Let learned Court below issue notice to the informant and fix a date for her appearance. On appearance of the informant, the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional anticipatory bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned Court below on substantial restoration of the matrimonial harmony within a period of one year, or the informant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.