Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25338 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijendra Raj .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the husband of the informant received fire arm injury by some unknown persons. Suspicion was raised against this petitioner when this petitioner developed some intimacy with the daughter of the informant and given threatening for marriage. It is submitted by learned counsels for the informant and the State that the victim after giving consciousness, named this petitioner as an assailant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that paragraph no. 25 of the case diary Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25338 of 2012 (3) dt.04-09-2012 2 / 2 2 reflects further statement of the victim which suggests that the victim conveyed to the informant that firing was resorted to by this petitioner when the victim is unable to speak before injury caused. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. His prayer for anticipatory bail application is rejected in connection with Wazirganj P.S. Case No. 279 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned C.J.M., Gaya. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (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.