Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9012 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mirdula Kumari, 2. Amod Kumar Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and section 3(1)(x) of the S.C./S.T. (Prevention of atrocities) Act. The accusation is of making assault and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted that there is no specific accusation against petitioner no. 1 in the FIR and since petitioner no. 1 lodged Tajpur P.S. Case no. 160 of 2008 against one Devendra who set up the informant to lodge the present and for the occurrence of 1.2.2010 the complaint was lodged on 2.2.2010. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9012 of 2012 (2) dt.26-03-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Samastipur in connection with C.R. No. 163 of 2010 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.