Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2113 of 2012 ====================================================== Niranjan Prasad Santhaliya .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 23-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, complainant and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that complainant negotiated to purchase the truck of the petitioner and his son for Rs. 2,25,000/- out of which Rs. 50,000/- was paid. Initially the complaint was dismissed but subsequently by virtue of revisional order, cognizance has been taken in 2011. Considering the fact that there is no proof with regard to payments and similarly situated accused being son of the petitioner has been granted bail which gets reflected from Annexure-2, let the petitioner namely Niranjan Prasad Santhaliya, in the event of his arrest or surrender before learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Samastipur in connection with Trial No. 1806 of 2011, arising out of Complaint Case No. 784 of 2006. SHAGEER/- (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.