Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41732 of 2012 ====================================================== Arun Rai @ Arun Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending arrest in Maner P.S. Case No. 155 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna. The accusation is of torture and attempting to take life of the informant by putting the informant on fire. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the police has found the case under [STATUTE] when the informant was admitted in the hospital for a petty long time due to burnt injuries and petitioner has performed second marriage with Rinku when she has also filed a case under Section 498A of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41732 of 2012 (2) dt.05-12-2012 2/2 the IPC against the petitioner. In view of this Court, it is fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of 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.