Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39304 of 2012 ====================================================== Pawan Kumar Rai .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner and others entered into the house of the informant and assaulted the mother of the informant indiscriminately since the mother of the informant saw illicit relation between the petitioner and Sarita Kumari the daughter of Raj Kumar Rai. Subsequently the mother of the informant succumbed to injuries. It is submitted that accusation of assault is against others also and the petitioner is teacher in a government school having no criminal antecedent. It is further submitted that post mortem report does not reflect any external injury. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.39304 of 2012 (2) dt.16-10-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. His anticipatory bail application is rejected in Andhra Math P.S. Case No. 27 of 2012 pending in the court of the learned A.C.J.M., Jhanjharpur, Madhubani. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. 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.