Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34621 of 2012 ====================================================== Jagesh Kahar & Ors .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-09-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 3(1)(X)(XI) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusation is of abusing by calling caste name after entering into the house of the informant when it is specifically alleged against Raju Khar to have assaulted the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that specific accusation is against Raju Khar who is not petitioner before this Court and admittedly the offence under SC/ST Act was not committed in public view. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Jagesh Kahar 2. Jitendra Kahar 3. Binay Kahar, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34621 of 2012 (2) dt.14-09-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Jehanabad in connection with Arwal(SC/ST) P.S. Case No. 03 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 354

Statute Text:
Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code. Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will there by outrage her modesty, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.