Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2142 of 2012 ====================================================== Adalat Kushwaha & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 24-01-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that accused Murari Kushwaha on pistol point took obscene snaps of the sister of the informant, as a result of which informant’s sister marriage could not be solemnized and when the informant went to the petitioners, they also threatened the informant for marry his sister with Murari Kushwaha. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against Murari Kushwaha, let the petitioners namely 1. Adalat Kushwaha 2. Ramesh Kushwaha @ Ramesh Mahto, 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, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Lauriya P.S. Case No. 94 of 2011. 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.