Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23976 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sheo Pujan Singh 2. Nandlal Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, the State and the complainant. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the complainant paid Rs.60,000/- as advance for transferring the land by petitioner no. 1 when the final consideration was Rs.70,000/-, but neither the sale deed was executed nor the advance money was returned to the complainant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is no proof with regard to the payment. Considering the nature of accusation, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23976 of 2012 (2) dt.27-07-2012 2/2 above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Saran at Chapra in connection with Complaint Case No. 3533 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.