Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17564 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sita Ram Yadav 2. Radha Yadav @ Radhey Shyam Yadav 3. Ghanshyam Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 01-11-2012 It is submitted that petitioner No. 1 Sita Ram Yadav has been arrested, hence his application has become infructuous. Accordingly the same is disposed off. Petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of making assault by several people when one Dashrath Yadav succumbed to the injury. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that victim was a veteran criminal who resorted firing on the petitioners’ side when petitioners’ side lodged Bithan P.S. Case No. 84 of 2010 under [STATUTE] . and when the victim was fleeing away after Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17564 of 2012 (4) dt.01-11-2012 2 / 2 2 firing then villagers assaulted him. It is further submitted that during investigation the case was found under [STATUTE] . It is orally submitted that petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 have no criminal antecedent. Considering the same, let the petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 namely Radha Yadav @ Radhey Shyam Yadav and Ghanshyam Yadav, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Rosera, Samastipur in connection with Bithan P.S. Case No. 85 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.