Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1557 of 2012 Karu Singh @ Bishnujit Kumar & Ors. Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 17.01.2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences 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 by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners’ side lodged the case against the informant’s side at earlier point of time and as a retaliatory measure, the present case has been lodged. Earlier lodging of the case against the informant by the petitioners’ side clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Karu Singh @ Bishnujit Kumar 2. Rajesh Kumar @ Rajesh Singh 3. Manish Kumar @ Manish Singh, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail 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, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Mahua P.S. Case No. 423 of 2011. Shageer ( 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.