Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14700 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Subodh Kumar @ Subodh Kumar Roy 2. Suresh Kumar @ Suresh Roy. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of taking Rs. 25,000/- for establishing mobile tower on the land of the informant on the assurance of payment of Rs. 5,000/- per month as rent but when the complainant went to ask for the same Rs. 2,000/- was also taken from his pocket. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no proof with regard to the payment. Considering the nature of accusation arising out of contractual relationship, let the above named 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14700 of 2012 (2) dt.23-04-2012 2/2 with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Khagaria in connection with Complaint Case No. 992C of 2010, 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.