Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13834 of 2012 ====================================================== Dharmendra Kumar @ Pintu .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 23-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and ¾ of the D. P. Act. The petitioner and the informant are present. The petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour but the informant is apprehensive due to past conduct of the petitioner and suggested that the marriage never consummated. It is submitted that the petitioner has filed the case for restitution of conjugal life. In the circumstances, reconciliation appears to be non-feasible at present. The petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 2,000/- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13834 of 2012 (4) dt.23-07-2012 2 / 3 2 per month to opposite party no.2 from September,2012 by depositing the same in the bank account of the informant by the second week of every month. The offer is accepted to the learned counsel for the informant and the informant undertakes to supply her bank account number by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below within a period of three weeks. Considering the stand of the parties, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kurtha P.S. Case No. 93 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Jehanabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceedings. Three consecutive defaults in making payment will give liberty to opposite party no. 2 to file cancellation of bail of petitioner. The present order will not be precluded the parties to either resolve the issue or part wages Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13834 of 2012 (4) dt.23-07-2012 3 / 3 3 with mutual consent or take steps for dissolution of marriage. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.