Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27936 of 2012 ====================================================== Amrendra Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the marriage was performed on 09.03.2009 when the petitioner filed divorce case on 28.03.2011 then the present complaint was filed on 19.04.2011 which was subsequently registered as police case when the police found the accusation false and submitted final form, but differing with the same cognizance has been taken in thematter. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27936 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 2/3 The petitioner is ready to pay Rs.1,500/- per month since there is a child also from the wedlock from September, 2012 to the informant by depositing the same in her account by second week of every month. The offer is acceptable to the learned counsel for the informant and he undertakes to supply bank account number by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below within two weeks. Considering the fact present stand of the petitioner and the fact that the divorce case was filed at earlier point of time, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sheohar at Sitamarhi in connection with Tariyani P.S. Case No. 59 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceedings. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27936 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 3/3 Three consecutive defaults in making payment will give liberty to the complainant to file application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.