Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11657 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajesh Pandey .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Parties. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . On instructions, learned counsels for both sides are ready for reconciliation and both sides agree to appear before the learned court below on 30.04.2012 when the petitioner will take back the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the stand of the parties, let the petitioner, above named, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Baikunthpur P.S. Case No. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11657 of 2012 (2) dt.06-04-2012 2 / 2 2 54 of 2011 (arising out of Complaint Case No. 750 of 2011) on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M., Gopalganj, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned court below in three eventualities if the matrimonial harmony is restored substantially within one year or the wife deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner or the informant fails to appear before the learned court below on the date fixed. U.K./- (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.