Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16395 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dhano Kuar @ Dhanwa Kuar 2. Bitan Paswan @ Sunil Paswan. 3. Maina Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioners and others were breaking the lock of the informant’s house on 11.12.2011 for which the informant got the delivery of possession through court when the theft was also committed in the house of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that in the background of serious land dispute, the accusation has been levelled when the petitioners’ side got the red card with regard to the land in question, moreover, for the occurrence of 11.12.201 the FIR was lodged on 15.1.2011. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16395 of 2012 (2) dt.03-05-2012 2/2 petitioners 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Aurangabad (T) P.S. Case No. 472 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.