Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5597 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Veyas Paswan S/O Dashrath Paswan Resident Of Village- Saraiya Tola Turkauliya, P.S.- Paharpur, District- East Champaran, Motihari 2. Ramesh Paswan S/O Late Lagthu Paswan Resident Of Village- Saraiya Tola Turkauliya, P.S.- Paharpur, District- East Champaran, Motihari .... .... 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 case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on the order of petitioner no. 1, Krishna Paswan caused fire arm injury to the informant. It is alleged that petitioner no. 1 was on inimical terms from before as son of petitioner no. 1 married with the informant’s daughter against the wishes of the informant earlier. 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5597 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 2/2 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, Motihari, East Champaran in connection with Paharpur P.S. Case No. 198 of 2010, 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.