Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36788 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Gauri Shankar Rai 2. Rajesh Rai. 3. Naresh Rai. 4. Balli Rai. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is specifically alleged that one Laxman Rai assaulted on the head of the father of the informant with iron rod and thereafter others also assaulted. It is alleged against these petitioners that they assaulted the informant’s mother and younger brother. The father of the informant succumbed to the injuries. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that no injury reports of informant’s mother and brother have been brought on record. The postmortem report reflects vital injury on the head of the deceased which is specifically alleged against Laxman Rai. A statement has been made in the petition that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36788 of 2012 (2) dt.27-09-2012 2/2 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, Samastipur in connection with Patory P.S. Case No. 90 of 2011, 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.