Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42877 of 2010 (7) dt.01-11-2012 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42877 of 2010 ====================================================== Santosh Kumar, son of Sri Yadunandan Rai, resident of village Bakhari Barahi, P.S. Raja Pakar, district Vaishali .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 7 01-11-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. This is a petition for grant of anticipatory bail for offence under [STATUTE] and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. There is allegation of demand of money. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the victim-wife has solemnized second marriage. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender, within four weeks from the date of receipt of this order, is directed to be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bound of Rs.10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each in connection with Complaint Case No. 712 of 2009 to the satisfaction of subject to the condition that the petitioner will file affidavit in the Court below about the marriage of the victim-wife’s second marriage with one Lalit Rai, son of Jagdish Rai and the trial Court after being satisfied with this fact will enlarge the petitioner on anticipatory and, further, subject to the condition that the petitioner shall appear in Court on each and every date, fixed in the case and any absence, on two consecutive dates, without any reasonable ground to the satisfaction of the Court below, shall be a ground of cancellation of bail of the petitioner by the lower Court itself. 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.