Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20470 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Mahto & Ors .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of assaulting in the background of free fight between the children from both sides. Petitioners are the agnates of informant. The accusation is also of making assault with fists and slaps. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that injuries except one have been found to be simple and due to land dispute occurrence took place. It is further submitted that accusation is not specific against the petitioners. It is undertaken by the petitioners that they shall deposit Rs. 2,000/- each in cash before the learned court below which will be released in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20470 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 2 / 2 2 favour of the informant. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Ajay Mahto, Uday Mahto and Renu Devi, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Khodawanpur P.S. Case No. 03 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Begusarai, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted by the learned court below on deposit of Rs. 2,000/- in cash by each petitioners. U.K./- (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.