Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3236 of 2012 ====================================================== Kamkhaya Narayan Singh & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 01-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Accusation of causing fracture injury on the leg of the informant is against petitioner No. 1, hence this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner No. 1 namely Kamkhaya Narayan Singh. The prayer for anticipatory bail of petitioner No. 1 stands rejected. Let learned Court below consider regular bail of petitioner No. 1, without being prejudiced by the order of this Court and keeping in view that informant has retracted from initial version and there is no accusation of repetition of blow. Considering the nature of accusation, let the petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 namely Dhram Nath Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3236 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Singh and Prem Nath Singh, 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, Ara in connection with Udawant Nagar P.S. Case No. 82 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.