Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32662 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Shahbaj Iman & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-09-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 3(1)(X)(IX) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusation is of making assault and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that no injury was caused to any one and the occurrence has not taken place in public view when for the occurrence of 08.02.2012 the F.I.R. was registered on 09.02.2012. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Md. Shahbaj Imam 2. Md. Imran 3. Chandeshwari Sah, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32662 of 2012 (2) dt.07-09-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Saharsa in connection with Saharsa S.C./S.T. P.S. Case No. 4 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.