Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32177 of 2012 ====================================================== Ranjeet Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-10-2012 The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending his arrest in Purnahia P.S. Case No. 60 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sheohar at Sitamarhi. The petitioner was granted provisional anticipatory bail for six months on 19.04.2011 vide Cr. Misc. No. 10178 of 2011 which was to be confirmed by learned court below on substantial restoration of matrimonial harmony or on refusal of the informant to reside with the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that after sometime again the informant left the matrimonial house but when the torture was alleged by the informant then the learned court below vide order dated 04.11.2011 did not confirm the provisional bail and issued non- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32177 of 2012 (2) dt.17-10-2012 2/2 bailable warrant against the petitioner. It is further submitted that the petitioner is still ready to reconcile. Learned court below will consider the regular bail of the petitioner sympathetically if he offers the informant to reconcile and if he surrenders within a period of eight weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 498A

Statute Text:
Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. Punishment for subjecting a married woman to Cruelty. Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband of a woman, subjects such woman to cruelty shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine.