Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12602 of 2012 ====================================================== Mukesh Kumar Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusation is of making abuse by calling caste name when informant refused to issue the identity slip since there was no document with regard to the land possession. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner’s side earlier lodged complaint against the informant, hence accusation has been levelled. Considering the nature of accusation and the fact that petitioner has earlier lodged a case against the informant, let the petitioner namely Mukesh Kumar Choudhary, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12602 of 2012 (2) dt.11-04-2012 2 / 2 2 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Rosera, Samastipur in connection with Rosera P.S. Case No. 7 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 504

Statute Text:
Section 504 of the Indian Penal Code. Insult intended to provoke breach of the peace. Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.