Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36074 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Md. Zafar Alam 2. Arshad @ Md. Arshad Jamil 3. Equbal 4. Md. Shahbaz 5. Israil .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State Mr. Ramesh Chandra. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged by the complainant being Headmaster in the school that documents of the school and grains of mid- day-meal were taken away by the accused persons when complainant was abused by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation was found false and final form was submitted, but subsequently on protest, cognizance has been Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36074 of 2012 (2) dt.21-09-2012 2 / 2 2 taken. Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, 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 Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Araria in connection with Complaint Case No. C 4024 of 2010. 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.