Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15676 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Prakash Mandal 2. Chunchun Mandal 3. Subodh Mandal 4. Tara Devi 5. Chinta Devi 6. Rinku Devi 7. Babita Devi @ Babiya Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 01-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3(1) (iv) (xi) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of making assault to the informant, her daughters and husband and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there was no injury to any one and there is land dispute between the parties for which 107 Cr.P.C. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15676 of 2012 (2) dt.01-05-2012 2/2 proceeding is going on and for the occurrence of 30.05.2011 the FIR was lodged on 09.06.2011. The delayed lodging of the FIR clouds the bonafide of the accusation. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, 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 SC/ST Bhagalpur P.S. Case No. 14 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.