Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31731 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kanti Devi 2. Dular Prasad. 3. Nawal Choudhary. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the father-in-law, brother-in-law (bhaisur) and sister-in-law (gotni) of the informant are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making assault to the informant for the sake of partition in the share. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that injury has been found to be simple. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31731 of 2012 (2) dt.06-09-2012 2/2 satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Bihar Sharif in connection with Bind P.S. Case No. 74 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.