Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27043 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Yadav & Others. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-08-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to make necessary correction in prayer portion of the petition. 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] . It is alleged that the petitioners used to tease the informant and on the alleged date of occurrence they dragged the informant to a orchard when the informant raised alarm the accused persons fled away. It is submitted that no injury was caused to the informant and even assuming accusation, at best the case under [STATUTE] . is made out. Moreover, when the petitioners raised objection Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27043 of 2012 (2) dt.02-08-2012 2 / 2 2 with regard to informant’s love affairs with one Umesh Singh Kushwaha then as a retaliatory measure the present case has been lodged by the informant against the petitioners. The statement has been made in paragraph no. 9 of the petition that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the nature of accusation when no injury was caused, let the petitioners Ashok Yadav, Birbal Chauhan and Tinku Miyan @ Shamsheer Ali 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 Buxar Industrial P.S. Case No. 44 of 2012 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. Buxar, 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: 354

Statute Text:
Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code. Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will there by outrage her modesty, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.