Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33718 of 2012 ====================================================== Kamlesh Mishra .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s Appearance :- For the petitioner : - Mr. Shailendra Pandey, Advocate For the State : - Mr. Uma Shankar Prasad Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 01-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of causing injury by spear. This Court is not inclined to interfere since the case was instituted in 2001. Accordingly, prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is rejected in connection with Kotwa P.S. Case No. 115 of 2001 pending in the court of learned CJM, Motihari. 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.