Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22930 of 2012 ====================================================== Gita Devi & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.23213 of 2012 ====================================================== Raju Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-07-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of performance of engagement ceremony with the sister of the informant with petitioner Raju Kumar when jewellery and other articles were given. Subsequently the petitioners’ side demanded Rs. 7 lacs as dowry and due to non-fulfilment of dowry demand the marriage could not be solemnized. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that no demand of dowry was made, but the petitioners’ side admits about the engagement ceremony. In the circumstance, petitioners are ready to deposit Rs. 5000/- each before learned Court below, which will Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22930 of 2012 (2) dt.02-07-2012 2 / 2 2 be released in favour of the informant, if he agrees to withdraw the case, otherwise the aforesaid amount will be invested in some fixed deposit scheme, which will be subject to the result of the case. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Gita Devi 2. Rajesh Kumar Gupta 3. Raju Kumar, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Dehri, Rohtas in connection with Dehri(T) P.S. Case No. 7 of 2012. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted provisionally till deposit of the aforesaid amount. Shageer/- (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.