Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33535 of 2012 ====================================================== Suresh Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-09-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture and attempting to burn the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no injury report on record and petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour, hence the accusation is not being deliberated. Considering the present stand of the petitioner, let the petitioner namely Suresh Choudhary, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33535 of 2012 (2) dt.05-09-2012 2 / 2 2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Nawada P.S. Case No. 606 of 2011. Let learned Court below issue notice to the informant and fix a date for her appearance. On appearance of the informant, the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional anticipatory bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned Court below on substantial restoration of the matrimonial harmony within a period of one year, or if the informant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. 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.