Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22969 of 2012 ====================================================== Guddu Kahar & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-07-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. Uma Shankar Pd. Singh, learned A.P.P. for the State. The 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. The accusations are of making assault with fists and slaps and abuse and when the informant asked the accused not to abuse then the informant was abused by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation of assault is not specific and abuse was not made in a public view. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Guddu Kahar and Rajesh Gupta, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22969 of 2012 (2) dt.02-07-2012 2 / 2 2 twelve weeks from today in connection with Dehri (SC/ST) P.S. Case No. 15 of 2012 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 C.J.M. Rohtas at Sasaram, 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.