Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24071 of 2012 (2) dt.13-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24071 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahendra Mandal .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 13.07.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State assisted by learned counsel for the informant. Petitioner is in jail custody in a case registered under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. Altogether 14 persons including the petitioner are named in the first information report but no specific overt-act has been attributed against the petitioner and admittedly, none has sustained any injury in the alleged crime. Learned counsel appearing for the informant points out that four other cases have been lodged against the petitioner but learned counsel for the petitioner clarifies that almost all the cases have been lodged by the family members of the informant of the present case and moreover, there is land dispute between the parties. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Mahendra Mandal, 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, Bhagalpur in Kahalgaon P.S. Case no. 412/2011. 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.