Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20126 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Bulta Yadav 2. Chhote Yadav 3. Khagu Yadav @ Ranjeet Yadav 4. Ramesh Kumar Tanti @ Ganesh Tanti .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 21-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1)(x) SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that the petitioners along with 7- 8 persons arrived and they assaulted the informant and his family members and tried to rescue the informant and abused by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant was the cleaner of the truck of the petitioners and when he was removed then he lodged the present case and for the occurrence of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20126 of 2012 (2) dt.21-06-2012 2/2 09.03.2012 the FIR was lodged on 11.03.2012 and admittedly the house of the informant cannot be treated to be the place of public view. Considering the aforesaid submissions, let the 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Lakhisarai SC/ST P.S. Case No. 20 of 2012, 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.