Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13405 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Baburam Singh 2. Uday Singh 3. Mukesh Kumar Singh @ Mukesh Singh. 4. Rakesh Singh. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in connection with Sherghati P.S. Case No. 93 of 2005 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Sub- divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sherghati, Gaya. Petitioners were earlier granted anticipatory bail by the learned court below vide A.B.P. No. 694 of 2007 till the submission of the charge sheet. In view of the ration laid down in Bishundeo Sahu Vs. State of Bihar reported in 2011(1) PLJR, 731, the anticipatory bail application is not maintainable. Let the learned court below pass the appropriate order with regard to the regular bail of the petitioners if the petitioners have not misused the privilege of bail keeping in view of the ratio Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13405 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2/2 laid down in the aforesaid case and in case of Mahendra Prasad Singh Vs. The State of Bihar reported in 2004(3), PLJR, 491. With the aforesaid observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. 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.