Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31889 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-09-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of kidnapping minor daughter of the informant for performance of marriage. Subsequently the victim was recovered who disclosed in her 164 Cr.P.C. statement that the petitioner and one Umesh Paswan for the purposes of marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that co-accused Umesh Paswan after being treated juvenile, has been granted bail. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Sasaram Agarer P.S. Case No. 289 of 2012, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31889 of 2012 (2) dt.06-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Magistrate, Rohtas, Sasaram. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.