Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3955 of 2012 ====================================================== Deepak Kumar & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that in the night the petitioners tried to establish forceful physical relationship by removing the cloth of the informant on 27.05.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that even assuming the accusation, at best the case under [STATUTE] . is made out and for the occurrence of 27.05.2011, the F.I.R. was lodged on 01.06.2011. Delayed lodging of the F.I.R. clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Deepak Kumar 2. Sampat Kumar, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3955 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in connection with Shahkund P.S. Case No. 97 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.