Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16288 of 2012 ====================================================== Awadhesh Kumar Bhandari & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-05-2012 Petitioners being brother and mother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant, after one year of marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that informant has retracted from initial version. Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband of the deceased, who as per learned counsel for the petitioners will surrender within a period of four weeks, let the petitioners namely 1. Awadhesh Kumar Bhandari 2. Sanju Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16288 of 2012 (2) dt.04-05-2012 2 / 2 2 thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Khanpur P.S. Case No. 76 of 2011. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted on surrender of the husband of the deceased. 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.