Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36531 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Santosh Rai @ Santosh Kumar 2. Ram Babu Rai 3. Sonu Kumar 4. Dharmendra Kumar Rai @ Dharmendra Kumar 5. Balendra Kumar Rai @ Balandra Kr. Rai 6. Shatrughan Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 09-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of making assault, snatching Rs.5,000/- and driving license of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that earlier the wife of co-accused Anand Bhushan lodged a case against the informant and as a retaliatory measure the present case has been lodged. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36531 of 2012 (2) dt.09-10-2012 2/2 named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned CJM, Muzaffarpur in connection with Motipur P.S. Case No. 150 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.