Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14666 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Singh @ Manoj Kr. Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged by the informant that for running brick kiln business he took the land on lease from the father of the petitioner when the petitioner and one Dev Babu damaged the bricks and took out Rs. 18,000/- from the pocket of the informant and also threatened to give extortion of Rs. 1,00,000/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the father of the petitioner in the year 2007 filed a complaint against the informant alleging that the lease deed has been created by forging the documents and subsequently on 19.11.2010, the father of the petitioner also lodged a case against the informant leveling the accusation under Sections 447, 341, 323, 379 and 384/34 and Section 27 of the Arms Act. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14666 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 2/2 Considering the case lodged by the petitioner’s side at earlier point of time which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Hathauri P.S. Case No. 194 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.