Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17269 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Kumar Agarwal @ Sanjay Agarwal .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 09-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. 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 and has also filed a restitution case in which the complaint is not appearing when it is now proceeded ex-parte. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. 3015 of 2010, subject to Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17269 of 2012 (2) dt.09-05-2012 2/2 the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The grant of bail to the petitioner will not preclude the complainant to appear in the restitution case and resuming the conjugal life. 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.