Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18487 of 2012 ====================================================== Tetari Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture and killing the daughter of the informant for non fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that after investigation the charge sheet has been submitted only under [STATUTE] and subsequently the son of the petitioner was also killed at the behest of the informant’s side when the petitioner’s side lodged a case being Bairgania P.S. Case No. 122 of 2011 against the present informant. Considering the facts that the charge sheet has been submitted under [STATUTE] and the son of the petitioner has also been killed at the behest of the informant, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18487 of 2012 (2) dt.16-05-2012 2/2 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, Sitamarhi in connection with Bairgania P.S. Case No. 81 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.