Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2413 of 2012 ====================================================== Pramila Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 05/ 20-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making assault to the informant by the petitioner and her husband. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation of initial assault is against Rajnish on the head and the injury on the head has been found to be grievous and the place of assault by the petitioner has not specified by the informant and the petitioner is a lady. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner but in view of this Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2413 of 2012 (5) dt.20-06-2012 2/2 Court considering the nature of accusation and the petitioner being lady, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Hasanpur P.S. Case No. 30 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rosera (Samastipur). With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.