IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR.MISC. NO.33964 OF 2009 RAM NATH RAI, SONOF JAI NANDAN RAI, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE SHIVDASPUR, POLICE STATION KATRA, DISTRICT MUZAFFARPUR VERSUS THE STATE OF BIHAR ********* 2 07/11/2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case under sections 341, 323 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3/4 of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The alleged occurrence took place with respect to the dispute as the lady in question was easing herself near the house of the petitioner. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the provisions of Section 3 and 4 of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act would not attract because it is alleged that the petitioner threatened the informant by taking her caste name in a lonely place which will not come within the meaning of public place. At best, this would be case under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Be that as it may, the above named petitioner is directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest/surrender before the Court below within 2 a period of six weeks from today in Katra Police Station Case No. 94 of 2009 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Anand ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)