Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4114 of 2012 (2) dt.08-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4114 of 2012 ====================================================== Mobarak Ansari, son of Mazid Ansari. .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of making assault and cutting the hair of the informant by the family members of the husband. Husband was not named in the first information report. His name subsequently sprang up during investigation. It appears from the impugned order that the informant is hesitant to reconcile. In the circumstances, the petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 1,000/- per month to the informant from April. 2012 by depositing the same in the Bank Account of the informant by second week of every month. Let the petitioner supply a copy of this order to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4114 of 2012 (2) dt.08-02-2012 the informant within a period of two weeks when it is expected that the informant will supply her bank account number to the petitioner within two weeks thereafter by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below. The aforesaid amount will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan, in connection with Barharia P.S. Case No. 195 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. Three consecutive defaults in making payment by the petitioner will give liberty to the informant to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner. Md. Ibrarul/- (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.