Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26999 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Wajir Yadav @ Wajir Lal Yadav 2. Devendra Yadav @ Devendra Prasad Yadav 3. Bahadur Lal Yadav 4. Raj Kumar Yadav 5. Sudhir Yadav @ Sudhir Kumar Yadav 6. Binod Yadav @ Binod Kumar Yadav 7. Rajesh Yadav @ Rajesh Kumar Yadav 8. Tirath Yadav @ Tirath Kumar Yadav 9. Sanjeev Yadav @ Sanjeev Kumar Yadav 10. Birbal Yadav @ Birbal Kumar Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-08-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that the complainant was residing on the land in question by virtue of parcha issued by the State when petitioners came and asked to vacate the land in question and abused by calling caste name. It is also alleged that earlier also a case was lodged by the complainant against the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26999 of 2012 (2) dt.02-08-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for the occurrence of 28.11.2010 the complaint was filed on 20.01.2011 when in the earlier case the final form was submitted since there was serious land dispute between the parties from before. Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kishanganj in connection with Complaint Case No. C-55 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 354

Statute Text:
Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code. Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will there by outrage her modesty, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.