Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34388 of 2012 (3) dt.11-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34388 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Imran @ Yusuf .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Farhat Parveen .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 11-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. The offer is acceptable to the informant but she is apprehensive due to the past conduct of the petitioner. Both the sides agree that the petitioner and the informant shall appear before the learned court below on 15th of January, 2013 when the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34388 of 2012 (3) dt.11-12-2012 petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the present stand of the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection with Saharsa P.S. Case No. 38 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed within one year by the learned court below on substantial restoration of the matrimonial harmony or if the informant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. DKS/ (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.