Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23937 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dharmatma Nand Singh 2. Premato Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] , Section 3 (I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Section 17 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act. The accusation is that the petitioner asked the informant to vacate the house but the informant raised the objection when the informant was abused by calling caste name and was also assaulted. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation has been levelled in the background of bona fide land dispute when only swelling has been found and the accusation under SC/ST Act cannot be treated in a public view when there is counter version of the occurrence also. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23937 of 2012 (2) dt.18-07-2012 2/2 petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period 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, Rohtas at Sasaram in connection with Chutiya P.S. Case No. 21 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.