Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40378 of 2012 ====================================================== Pandu Yadav & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1)(x) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act). The accusations are of making assault and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners lodged Complaint Case No. 1229 of 2011 for occurrence of 01.06.2011 on 03.06.2011 against the informant’s family then the present case was registered on 05.06.2011 when no date of occurrence was mentioned. It is submitted that both sides have retracted from their initial versions and a petition to that effect has been filed before the learned Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40378 of 2012 (2) dt.08-11-2012 2 / 2 2 court below when accusation against the petitioners is not specific. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Pandu Yadav and Himanshu Yadav @ Manish Kumar be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Araria P.S. Case No. 274 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Araria, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 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.