Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41529 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of establishing forceful physical relationship by Mintu Kumar with the complainant on 10.02.2011 when the complainant got pregnant and when the protest was made to perform marriage but the same was not performed. Complaint was filed on 22.10.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 16.11.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that delayed lodging of the complaint clouds the accusation and even assuming accusation it appears that relationship was established between the complainant and Mintu Kumar with mutual consent. It is further submitted that the victim was not medically examined. Considering the delayed lodging of the complaint, let Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41529 of 2012 (2) dt.30-11-2012 2/2 the above named petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, West Muzaffarpur in connection with Sahebganj P.S. Case No. 233 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.