Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27309 of 2012 ====================================================== Gulam Rasool .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the son of the petitioner Md. Nizam established forceful physical relationship with the informant and subsequently continued the same on promise of the marriage but later on demand of Rs. 3,00,000/- as dowry were made when the son of the petitioner refused to marry with the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner’s side filed informatory petition on 20.10.2011 when the present case was lodged on 22.10.2011 and subsequently, a case under [STATUTE] was lodged against the informant from the petitioner’s side. Considering the nature of accusation particularly the fact that the thrust of accusation is against Md. Nizam, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27309 of 2012 (2) dt.03-08-2012 2/2 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, West Muzaffarpur in connection with Paroo P.S. Case No. 254 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 493

Statute Text:
Section 493 of the Indian Penal Code. A man by deceit causing a woman not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit with him in that belief. Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit or have sexual intercourse with him in that belief, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.