Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1855 of 2012 ====================================================== Basant Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 23-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of demand of dowry and torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the divorce case was filed by the petitioner on 02.06.2011 and thereafter the present case was lodged on 11.07.2011. Considering the lodging of the divorce case at the earlier point of time, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1855 of 2012 (2) dt.23-01-2012 2/2 each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali in connection with Mahua P.S. Case No. 286/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the 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.