Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30592 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Girija Devi 2. Janardan Giri. 3. Dharmendra Giri. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.33051 of 2012 ====================================================== Amarendra Giri .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. The petitioners being the husband and family members of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the victim was married with petitioner Amarendra Giri on 07.07.2011 when she got pregnant, thereafter she was admitted in the hospital by the informant at Patna when the accused persons also attended the victim when the sister of the informant and the new born baby died in the hospital. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30592 of 2012 (2) dt.28-08-2012 2/2 It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the consent form for admitting the victim and conducting surgery was signed by the informant which has been brought on record as Annexure-2 when the sister of the informant and the new born baby died on 24.04.2011 and 28.04.2011 respectively thereafter the complaint was filed on 27.04.2011 which came to be registered as a police case on 20.05.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that though, he got his sister admitted in the hospital but in connivance with the accused persons, the dead body of the informant’s sister and new born baby were made to disappear. Considering the admission of the informant that the victim was admitted in the hospital at his behest and the medical report suggests the death in the hospital, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chapra in connection with Amnour P.S. Case No. 60 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) 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.