Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13410 of 2012 ====================================================== Rakesh Ranjan @ Pappu Pandey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 17-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3(1) (x) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged by the informant, who is the Panchayat Secretary that he was being abused by calling caste name and given threat for non-fulfillment of the extortion demand and Rs. 3500 /- was snatched. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that against the Panchayat Secretary and other authorities for misappropriation of the funds complaint was made before the B.D.O. on 08.02.2011 by Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13410 of 2012 (2) dt.17-04-2012 2/2 the petitioner and others and thereafter the present FIR has been lodged on 02.09.2011. Filing of the present FIR much subsequent to the complaint lodged by the petitioner and others before the authorities against the informant clouds the bonafide of the accusation. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrae, Aurangabad in connection with Nabinagar P.S. Case No. 150 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.