Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8935 of 2012 ====================================================== Baldeo Chaudhari & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-03-2012 Learned counsel for the petitioners is permitted to make correction in the prayer portion of the petition. Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that on 13.12.2011 the informant was assaulted by two persons and abused by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that no injury was caused and for the occurrence of 13.12.2011 the F.I.R. was lodged on 15.12.2011. Delayed lodging of the F.I.R. clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Baldeo Chaudhari 2. Vinod Chaudhari 3. Durgesh Chaudhari, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8935 of 2012 (2) dt.26-03-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Vaishali(Hajipur) S.C. & S.T. P.S. Case No. 584 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.