Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15373 of 2012 ====================================================== Krishna Dhanuk & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 26-04-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusation is of making assault, committing theft and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that on 21.12.2011 the petitioners’ side lodged a case against the family members of the informant for kidnapping when the present case was lodged on 24.12.2011. Considering the case lodged at the behest of the petitioners at earlier point of time, let the petitioners namely 1. Krishna Dhanuk 2. Umesh Dhanuk 3. Dipu Kumar, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15373 of 2012 (2) dt.26-04-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Additional District & Sessions Judge, Sheikhpura in connection with Sheikhpura Harijan P.S. Case No. 5 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.