Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26960 of 2012 ====================================================== Chhotak Singh @ Bimlesh Singh & Ors .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-08-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that in the marriage ceremony of informant’s daughter, photographs were being taken by the accused persons and when it was objected by the informant, furniture and other articles were damaged and accused persons taken away video camera and attaichi containing gold ornament, cash and clothes. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that no offence under S.C. & S.T. Act is made out. Considering the nature of accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Chhotak Singh @ Bimlesh Singh @ Bimlesh Kumar 2. Munni Singh @ Sanjay Kumar 3. Arvind Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26960 of 2012 (2) dt.02-08-2012 2 / 2 2 Kumar 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, Bhojpur in connection with Sikrahata P.S. Case No. 30 of 2012. 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.