Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33979 of 2012 (2) dt.12-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33979 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandrakant Jha @ Batuk Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that the informant was abused while he went to the temple to worship. It is submitted that for the occurrence of 10.4.2012 the FIR was lodged on 18.4.2012 and the offence under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has not been committed in public view. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33979 of 2012 (2) dt.12-09-2012 satisfaction of learned SDJM, Pupri at Sitamarhi in connection with Nanpur P.S. Case No. 81 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 298

Statute Text:
Section 298 of the Indian Penal Code. Uttering any word or making any sound in the hearing or making any gesture, or placing any object in the sight of any person, with intention to wound his religious feelings. Whoever, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any person, utters any word or makes any sound in the hearing of that person or makes any gesture in the sight of that person or places any object in the sight of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.