Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16295 of 2012 (3) dt.09-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16295 of 2012 ====================================================== Kanchan Kumar@Kanchan Kumar Bhana@Prabhakar Kumar@Prabhakar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 03/ 09.07.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 3.1.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Admittedly, none has received any fire arm injury and no fire arm was recovered from the possession of the petitioner. The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case at the behest of Rupam Kumari who happens to be Sub Inspector of Police and she lodged Kotwali P.S. Case no. 409/2011 against the petitioner and prior to the aforesaid case, only one case i.e. Kotwali P.S. Case no.156/1999 had been registered against the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Kanchan Kumar @ Kanchan Kumar Bhanu @ Prabhakar Kumar @ Prabhakar Kumar Bhanu, 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 Addl. Sessions Judge FTC V, Munger in Sessions trial no. 204/2012 arising out of Kotwali P.S. Case no. 05/2012. 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.