Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16881 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ramdhari Sahni 2. Ramesh Sahni. 3. Rajkumar Sahni. 4. Navin Sahni. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation against the petitioner is of assaulting the informant whereas the specific accusation of assaulting the deceased is against Dharmendra Sahni. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant has received only one bruise injury and the informant has retracted from his initially version and has filed a petition to that effect. Considering the fact that the accusation of assaulting the deceased is not against the petitioner, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16881 of 2012 (2) dt.10-05-2012 2/2 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 Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dalsingh Sarai in connection with Vidyapati Nagar P.S. Case No. 44 of 2011, 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.