Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14531 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14531 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mithun Kumar, 2. Yugesh Kumar 3. Sameer Kumar Yadav .... .... 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 petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] and Section 3(1)(iii) & (iv) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. Accusations are of making assault by four persons when one of the injuries is grievous and frcture injury on the right leg and abusing by calling the caste name. It is submitted that there is counter version of the occurrence also when petitioners also received injuries and the accusation is general against all the four persons, hence, it cannot be said as to who actually caused the injury. The informant subsequently retracted from the initial version and has filed petition to that effect before the learned court below. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14531 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 petitioners 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in connection with Kahalgaon (Shivnarayanpur) P.S. Case No. 295 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.