PATNA, India, July 17 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on July 10:

Heard learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. In this case, the petitioner has challenged the order dated 16.11.2019 passed by the learned A.D.J., Banka, in Banka P.S. Case No.173 of 2020, by which the learned Judge has dismissed the discharge petition dated 18.03.2017 filed by the petitioner.

3. As per the F.I.R. on 15.05.2010 while the informant-Harshavardhan Das, the then Assistant in the office of the S.D.O., Banka, was coming to his office from the chambers of the S.D.O., the petitioner and one Ranjan Kumar Bhagat hurled caste based abuses on him for not carrying out their work and thereafter the petitioner told hi...