Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5344 of 2012 ====================================================== Gaurav Sinha, son of Hari Prasad Sinha, resident of Flat No. F/4 Bageshwari Apartment, Road No. 1, Chitragupta Colony Solanki Hatia, P.S. Hatia, district Ranchi .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Saurabh Kumar, Adv. For the Opposite Party : Mrs. Pushpa Sinha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD) 2 02-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. This is an application for grant of anticipatory bail for offence under [STATUTE] and 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. There is allegation of demand of dowry and subjecting cruelty. However, the allegation of demand of rupees five lacs appears to be incorrect because the petitioner is an engineer working at London. The victim had been to London, but, returned. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is ready to compromise and keep the victim. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender of the petitioner, he is directed to be released on anticipatory bail, within four weeks, from the date of receipt of this order, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/- (rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each in connection with Complaint Case No. 204(C) of 2010 to the satisfaction of Subdivisional Judicial Magistrate, Patna, subject to the condition that the petitioner will appear in the case on each and every date and either settle the dispute or face the trial and the trial be proceeded on day-to- day basis for an early disposal preferably within four months. SA/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.