Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3902 of 2012 ====================================================== Haripulice Paswan & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Suresh Chand Giri For the State : Mr. Ajay Kumar Jha ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioners were assaulting one Naresh Paswan and when the police reached to prevent him, petitioners and others started pelted stones. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that wife of the petitioner No. 1 also filed a complaint being Complaint Case No. 2064 of 2011 against the Officer-in-charge. It is further submitted that no injury was caused to any one. Considering the nature of accusation when no injury was caused to anyone, let the petitioners namely 1. Haripulice Paswan 2. Anjay Paswan 3. Akhilesh Paswan @ Awadhesh Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3902 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Paswan 4. Arun Paswan 5. Tilbul Paswan, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in connection with Kahalgaon Rasalpur O.P. P.S. Case No. 372 of 2011. 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.