Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3630 of 2012 ====================================================== Vivekanand Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 03-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted on instructions that both sides are ready to resume conjugal rights, hence the accusation is not being deliberated. Let the petitioner and informant appear before learned Court below on 27th of February, 2012, when petitioner will take his wife to her matrimonial house to keep her with full dignity and honour. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Vivekanand Jha, in the event of his arrest or surrender before learned Court below within a period of 12 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3630 of 2012 (2) dt.03-02-2012 2 / 2 2 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Falka P.S. Case No. 204 of 2011. If either one will violate the undertakings given before this Court, then either side will have liberty to approach this Court with appropriate application. 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.