Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24727 of 2012 ====================================================== Srikant Singh & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-07-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of putting the hut of the informant on fire, resulting into destruction of grains, clothes and cash of Rs. 15,000/-. A statement has been made in para 10 of the petition that petitioners have clean antecedent. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Srikant Singh 2. Manoj Singh @ Tunu Singh, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24727 of 2012 (2) dt.23-07-2012 2 / 2 2 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Kashichak(Sahpur) P.S. Case No. 10 of 2012. 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.