Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40284 of 2012 ====================================================== Uma Sahni @ Uma Shankar Sahni .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Paroo P.S. Case No. 190 of 2008 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magtistrate, West Muzaffarpur. It is alleged that the informant and his brother-in-law were assaulted by twenty people when the brother-in-law of the informant succumbed to the injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation against all the accused persons is omnibus when other accused who were not named in the FIR were granted anticipatory bail and who were named in the FIR were granted regular bail by this Court. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the privilege of regular bail to the petitioner if he Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40284 of 2012 (2) dt.06-11-2012 2/2 surrenders within a period of eight 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.