Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14244 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Sajid @ Md. Sajid Ali .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-04-2012 Heard the learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . On instructions, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour. Hence, the accusation is not being deliberated. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the petitioner, above named, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Raffiganj P.S. Case No. 11 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14244 of 2012 (2) dt.19-04-2012 2 / 2 2 Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M., Aurangabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Let the learned court below issue notice to the informant and on her appearance the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned court below in three eventualities if the matrimonial harmony is restored substantially within one year or the wife deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner or the informant fails to appear before the learned court below. 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.