Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16388 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sunil Paswan 2. Subodh Paswan. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making assault by the petitioners to Rinky Devi, Surajmani Devi and Sangeeta Kumari. The specific accusation against petitioner Sunil Paswan is to have made assault to Rinky Devi with iron rod. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that Rinky Devi has not received any injury and Sangeeta Kumari received only one abrasion injury of marginal size whereas the injury report of Surajmani Devi is not on record. Considering the nature of injury and the fact that accusation has been levelled in the background of serious land dispute between the parties, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16388 of 2012 (2) dt.03-05-2012 2/2 before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Paras BighaP.S. Case No. 111 of 2011, 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.