Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21228 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Manoj Kumar 2. Baleshwar Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 05-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that on the order of Binod Rai all made assault with iron rod and danda when specific accusation of assault with iron rod is against the petitioner Manoj Kumar and Dubey Rai (non-petitioner) when Binod Rai inflicted knife injury on the head of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is no accusation of assault against petitioner no. 2 when there is no injury report on the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21228 of 2012 (4) dt.05-11-2012 2/2 record which has not been controverted by the learned counsel for the State. A statement has been made in para 16 that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Patna in connection with Patliputra P.S. Case No. 45 of 2012, 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.