Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16237 of 2012 ====================================================== Deepak Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 03.05.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour. The said offer is accepted by the learned counsel for the informant. Both the sides agreed to appear before the learned court below on 29th of May, 2012 when the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial home to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the stand of the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16237 of 2012 (2) dt.03-05-2012 2/2 anticipatory bail for one year in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Lakhisarai (Kavaiya) P.S. Case No. 14 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed within one year by the learned court below on substantial restoration of the matrimonial harmony or if the informant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. 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.