Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11382 of 2012 ====================================================== Sakudhan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and [STATUTE] was also added later on. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within few months of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. Specific case of the informant was that in the hospital the victim conveyed her that this petitioner and her husband set her on fire. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant has retracted from the initial version and has not supported her version what she stated in the FIR and filed an affidavit to that effect before the learned court below. It is further submitted that the husband is in custody. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11382 of 2012 (2) dt.05-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the retracted version of the informant and that petitioner is a lady, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Town P.S. Case No. 371 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The informant will be one of the bailors of the petitioner. Anil/- (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.