Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.36073 of 2012 ====================================================== Kalawati Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-09-2012 Petitioner being mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant by causing burnt injury. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that victim died due to the accidental burnt injury when she was given medical assistance and husband of the victim has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 20273 of 2012. This Court sees no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks in connection with Mohania P.S. Case No. 24 of 2012, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kaimur at Bhabhua. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.36073 of 2012 (2) dt.21-09-2012 2 / 2 2 With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.