Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24570 of 2012 ====================================================== Ganesh Yadav & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-07-2012 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] and 3(1)(x) of the S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities)Act. The accusation is of demanding Rs. 50,000/- as extortion and on non-payment the informant was threatened to leave the area. The informant was also abused by calling caste name. It is submitted that no case under [STATUTE] . is made out as no payment was made and the informant does not belong to S.C./S.T. community and for occurrence of 10.04.2012, F.I.R. was lodged on 13.04.2012. The statement has been made in paragraph no. 13 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24570 of 2012 (2) dt.20-07-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, Ganesh Yadav, Ajay Yadav @ Ajay Kumar and Dhanji Yadav 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 Buxar S.C./S.T. 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. Buxar, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 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.