Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34839 of 2012 ====================================================== Siriya Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 03-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the informant within four years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the husband of the victim/informant has been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 1051 of 2010. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34839 of 2012 (2) dt.03-10-2012 2/2 furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Begusarai in connection with Begusarai Town P.S. Case No. 302 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The learned court below will be at liberty to cancel the bail of the petitioner, if she defaults for three consecutive occasions. DKS/ (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.