Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16495 of 2012 ====================================================== Nand Kishore Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that an agreement was made between the petitioner and the complainant for purchase of pickup van. The money was to be paid in three installments within a period of one month when two installments was paid to the petitioner but subsequently the vehicle in question was sold to some other person. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that for the agreement to sale the vehicle on 10.07.2008 when the vehicle met with an accident on 07.08.2008 for which a case being Minapur P.S. Case No. 168 of 2008 was lodged and the agreement if any is between the petitioners’ son and the complainant. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16495 of 2012 (2) dt.04-05-2012 2/2 against the petitioner’s son, 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 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. 1105 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.