Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23794 of 2012 ====================================================== Devi Lal Singh & Ors .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-07-2012 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] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the accused persons made assault to the informant when the police went to arrest Nagendra Singh scuffle took place between the police and accused persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that earlier 144 Cr. P.C. proceeding was initiated between the petitioners and the informant which was made absolute against the informant. The wife of petitioner no.1 Devi Lal Singh has also lodged Didarganj P.S. Case No. 136 of 2011 against the informant in which petitioners were witnesses. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23794 of 2012 (2) dt.17-07-2012 2 / 2 2 It is further submitted that injuries have been found to be simple. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners Devi Lal Singh, Ashok Kumar, Ramesh Kumar @ Babloo, Arun Singh, Ram Dayal Singh and Akhilesh Kumar 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 Didarganj P.S. Case No. 37 of 2012 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 A.C.J.M., Patna City, 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: 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.