Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27135 of 2012 ====================================================== Raju Jain S/O Babulal Jain R/O Mohalla-Ward No. 24, Haliya Road, Marwan Pati, P.O.- & P.S.-Araria, Distt.-Araria .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : None. For the State : Smt. I.B. Pandey, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. ANJANA PRAKASH ORAL ORDER 2. 17-07-2012 No one appears on behalf of the Petitioner. The Petitioner seeks quashing of the First Information Report of Araria P.S. Case No. 462 of 2011 registered under [STATUTE] but by an order dated 17/18.5.2012 the Magistrate has taken cognizance under [STATUTE] . Having gone through the petition filed herein and the documents annexed thereto, I do not find any reason to interfere in the matter. The application is dismissed. S.Ali (Anjana Prakash, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 497

Statute Text:
Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code. Adultery. Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both. In such case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor.