Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42273 of 2012 (2) dt.30-11-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42273 of 2012 ====================================================== Lal Babu Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance: For the petitioner : Mr. Naresh Chandra Verma, Advocate For the State : Mr Ram Priya Sharan Singh, A. P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 30.11.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 6.8.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Although the petitioner is named in the first information report but no specific overt-act has been attributed against him rather general allegation of setting the house of the informant on fire has been levelled against the petitioner and all other accused persons. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Lal Babu Sah, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in Baikunthpur P.S. Case no. 37/2012. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.