Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25454 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25454 of 2012 ====================================================== Birendra Singh Yadav & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.26303 of 2012 ====================================================== Vikas Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-07-2012 It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioner of Cr. Misc. No. 26303 of 2012 namely Vikash Singh has been arrested, hence his application has become infructuous. Accordingly the same is disposed off. So far as other petitioners are concerned, they 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. In the F.I.R., it is alleged that son of the informant was taken by Vikash Singh when these petitioners were also seen accomplished by Vikash Singh. Subsequently when the informant enquired from these petitioners about his Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25454 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 son then they abused by calling caste name and made assault by fists and slaps and taken away mobile and watch. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for missing of the son of the informant, the Sanha was lodged on 02.02.2010, when it was alleged that informant’s son left the house of his own when no suspicion was raised against these petitioners. It is further submitted that for the occurrence of 28.01.2010, the complaint was lodged on 20.01.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 09.06.2011. A statement has been made in para 9 of the petition that petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Birendra Singh Yadav 2. Madho Singh 3. Arjun Singh, in the event of their arrest or surrender before learned 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, Aurangabad in connection with Baroon P.S. Case No. 124 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.