Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37300 of 2012 ====================================================== Manohar Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in Fatuha P.S. Case No. 372 of 2009 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 47(a) of the Excise Act pending in the court of learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City. The liquor shops of Mahanand Rai, Ashok Rai and Sonu Kumar were raided by the police when the petitioner being the brother of Mahanad Rai objected the seizure and made assault to the police personnel. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no injury to the police personnel and the recovery has not been made from the possession of the petitioner. In view of this Court, it is a case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37300 of 2012 (2) dt.01-10-2012 2/2 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.