Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3581 of 2012 ====================================================== Pankaj Kumar Singh @ Pankaj Mukhiya .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and section 3(1)(x) of the S.C./S.T. (Prevention of atrocities) Act (hereinafter referred to as the S.C./S.T. Act). The specific accusation of assault to the informant and his son is against Rohit Kumar and Bare Jee. There is no specific accusation under the S.C./S.T. Act against the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3581 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Birpur P.S. Case No. 101 /2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.