Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3586 of 2012 ====================================================== Rohan Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and section 3(1)(x) of the S.C./S.T. (Prevention of atrocities) Act. The accusation is of making assault and abusing by calling the caste name. It appears that for the occurrence of 6.12.2010, the complaint was filed on 13.12.2010, which came to be registered as police case on 26.12.2010 whereas the petitioner lodged a case against the informant on 6.12.2010 itself which clouds the bonafide of the accusation. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3586 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Kurtha P.S. Case No. 110 /2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 354

Statute Text:
Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code. Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will there by outrage her modesty, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.