Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30265 of 2012 ====================================================== Rupesh Kumar Mukesh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Anita Kumari .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 27-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The basic accusation is of torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is ready is keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour, but the complainant has filed divorce case being Matrimonial Case No. 09 of 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30265 of 2012 (2) dt.27-08-2012 2/2 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna in connection with Complaint Case No. 991C of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The grant of bail to the petitioner will not preclude the complainant to resume conjugal life if she expresses her desire to live with the petitioner and file application before the learned court below when the learned court below will issue notice to the petitioner and when the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial home to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 323

Statute Text:
Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.