Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3235 of 2012 ====================================================== Sita Ram Yadav & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 01-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusations are of making assault, committing theft and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that son of petitioner No. 1 lodged a case against four persons on 13.09.2011 and at whose behest the present case has been lodged. It appears that for the occurrence of 06.09.2011 the F.I.R. was lodged on 20.11.2011 and now the informant has retracted from initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. Delayed lodging of the case clouds the bona fide of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3235 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 / 2 2 the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Sita Ram Yadav 2. Shiv Balak Yadav 3. Parshuram Yadav, 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Munger S.C./S.T. P.S. Case No. 137 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 354

Statute Text:
Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code. Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will there by outrage her modesty, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.