Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20563 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Om Prakash Yadav 2. Randhir Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 25-06-2012 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] and 3(1) (x) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of making assault and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the injury has been found to be simple and the informant has retracted from his initial version which has been denied by Mr. Suresh Prasad, learned counsel for the informant. In that view of the matter, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20563 of 2012 (2) dt.25-06-2012 2/2 petitioners surrender before the learned court below and pray for regular bail which will be considered without being prejudiced by the order of this Court if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Kahalgaon P.S. Case No. 410 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. 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.