Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3235 of 2012 ====================================================== Sita Ram Yadav & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 01-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Accusations are of making assault, committing theft and abusing by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that son of petitioner No. 1 lodged a case against four persons on 13.09.2011 and at whose behest the present case has been lodged. It appears that for the occurrence of 06.09.2011 the F.I.R. was lodged on 20.11.2011 and now the informant has retracted from initial version and has filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. Delayed lodging of the case clouds the bona fide of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3235 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 / 2 2 the accusation, let the petitioners namely 1. Sita Ram Yadav 2. Shiv Balak Yadav 3. Parshuram Yadav, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheikhpura in connection with Munger S.C./S.T. P.S. Case No. 137 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.