Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39094 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Radheshyam Pandit 2. Manoj Pandit @ Manoj Kumar Pandit. 3. Vivek Pandit @ Viakas Pandit. 4. Ajit Pandit @ Ajit Kumar Pandit. 5. Sibu Pandit. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the petitioners entered into the house of the informant, assaulted him with fists and slaps and abused and also pointed out the pistol on the neck. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for the occurrence of 15.03.2011, the complaint was filed on 19.03.2012 which came to be registered as police case on 04.07.2012 when the petitioners’ side also lodged a case against the informant. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39094 of 2012 (2) dt.12-10-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in connection with Sonbarsa P.S. Case No. 76 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.