Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5642 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Deena Nath Prasad S/O Late Shyam Lal Sah R/O Moh Daldali Bazar, Dal Shop , Gandhi Chowk, Sabjibag, P.S.Town, Distt-Muzaffarpur 2. Babita Devi W/O Sri Deena Nath Prasad R/O Moh Daldali Bazar, Dal Shop , Gandhi Chowk, Sabjibag, P.S.Town, Distt-Muzaffarpur 3. Manoj Sah S/O Late Mahendra Sah R/O Moh New Colony, P.S. Town, Distt-Muzaffarpur, At Present Moh-Gobarsahi Near Pokhri, P.S.Sadar, Distt-Muzaffarpur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 29-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioner no. 1 being the brother of the complainant took Rs.25,000/- in 1992 for executing sale deed with regard to a land and in 1995 complainant built a house on the land in question but subsequently petitioner refused to execute sale deed and in 2010 the petitioner asked the complainant to vacate the house. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5642 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 2/2 Considering the fact that accusation is for the year 1992 and the complaint was filed in 2010, 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, Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. 1141 of 2010, Trial No. 4543 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.