Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34402 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34402 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ashok Singh S/O Late Maheshwar Singh R/O Village- Bedauli, P.S.- Sare, District- Nalanda 2. Guli @ Amlesh Kumar S/O Sri Ashok Singh R/O Village- Bedauli, P.S.- Sare, District- Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3(1)(iii)(x)(xi) and (xii) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of trying to undress the informant, making assault and abusing by calling the caste name. It is submitted that the occurrence took place on 19.5.2012 and the FIR has been registered on 1.6.2012 when no injury has been caused and the accusation under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is simply cosmetic in nature. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34402 of 2012 (3) dt.05-12-2012 petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of twelve weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with SC/ST P.S. (Nalanda) Case No. 31 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 511

Statute Text:
Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code. Attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment, and in such attempt doing any act towards the commission of the offence. Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Code with imprisonment for life or imprisonment, or to cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of the offence, shall, where no express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such attempt, be punished with imprisonment of any description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-half of the imprisonment for life or, as the case may be, one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.