Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28625 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Devendra Rai @ Dabindra Rai @ Dabindra Singh 2. Raju Kumar 3. Lalita Devi 4. Sumitra Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 17-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, the State and the informant. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making assault causing injury on the head and ear of the informant’s father. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are agnates of the informant when the injury has been found to be simple and there is a counter version of the occurrence also ventilated through complaint. It is further submitted that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28625 of 2012 (2) dt.17-08-2012 2/2 informant that the accusation of assault is specific and the informant’s father has received injury. Considering the nature of injury and the relationship between the parties, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran in connection with Dariyapur P.S. Case No. 52 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.