Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1853 of 2012 ====================================================== Sujeet Kumar @ Pappu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. A.K. Thakur. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. A. MP. Mehta, APP. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 23-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and Section 3(I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is that the informant was pushed out from the queue for taking fertilizer and his land receipts were snatched and subsequently Rs. 320/- was taken out from the informant’s pocket. It is submitted that the earlier petitioner’s side lodged Hulasganj P.S. Case No. 71 of 2011 against the informant. Considering the earlier lodging of the case by the petitioner which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1853 of 2012 (2) dt.23-01-2012 2/2 above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Hulasganj P.S. Case No. 72/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra (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.