Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8702 of 2012 ====================================================== Umesh Jha & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the elder brother of the husband and his wife are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after about six years of marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted that the petitioners are working at Orissa and partitioned from the husband. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioners, Umesh Jha and Babita Devi, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Cheriya Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8702 of 2012 (2) dt.23-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Bariyarpur P.S. Case No. 115 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Begusarai, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.