Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2776 of 2012 ====================================================== Maturia Yadav & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 27-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making assault. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that injury has been found simple and there is counter version of occurrence also. Moreover, the informant has retracted from his initial version and filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Maturia Yadav, Samundar Yadav and Kunal Yadav, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Fatwah P.S. Case No. 329 of 2011 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2776 of 2012 (2) dt.27-01-2012 2/2 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 A.C.J.M. Patna City, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.