Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35612 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Akhilesh Choudhary 2. Awadhesh Choudhary. 3. Chathu Choudhary. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3 (I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusations are of demand of extortion, making assault, snatching Rs. 5,000/- and abusing the informant by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that Buxar (M) P.S. Case No. 91 of 2008 was registered against the informant being the PDS dealer under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act in which the petitioner no. 1 was a witness, hence as a retaliatory measure, the present case has been lodged and the offence under SC/ST Act has not been committed in public view. A statement has been made in the petition that the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35612 of 2012 (2) dt.20-09-2012 2/2 petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Buxar SC/ST P.S. Case No. 07 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.