Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33316 of 2012 ====================================================== Rabindra Prasad @ Ranindra Prasad .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-09-2012 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 under provisions of the Bihar Electricity Act. It is alleged that after electricity being disconnected, electric meter of the petitioner was found in a running condition when the petitioner obstructed the authority to record the meter reading and snatched the meter reading sheet. It is submitted that though the petitioner filed an application for disconnection of electricity on 27.02.2012 but it was not disconnected and he has wrongly been recorded that disconnection was made since the petitioner submitted the bill of electricity consumption till 31.07.2012. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33316 of 2012 (2) dt.11-09-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner, above named, 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 with Ariari(Kasar)P.S. Case No. 55 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Sheikhpura, 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: 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.