Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19198 of 2012 ====================================================== Shankar Das .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Belhar P.S. Case No. 04 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] , Section 27 of the Arms Act, Section 17 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act and Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka. The police met with the extremists who were on motorcycle, tractor and jeep with S.L.R. and A.K.- 47 when the accused persons started firing on the police, subsequently, six person from the tractor were apprehended and rest managed to flee away. The driver of the tractor disclosed the name of this petitioner and one Pramod Das as one of the persons who were on the tractor. A statement has been made in para 12 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19198 of 2012 (3) dt.06-08-2012 2/2 It appears that other accused persons have been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. Nos. 184 of 2012 and 16392 of 2010. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.