Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5988 of 2012 ====================================================== Baiju Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour and hence accusation is not being deliberated. Considering the above stand, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of 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 SDJM, Pupri at Sitamarhi in Pupri P.S. Case no. 52 of 2008 subject to the conditions as laid Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5988 of 2012 (3) dt.06-04-2012 2 / 2 2 down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Let the learned court below issue notice to the complainant for her appearance when the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed if the matrimonial harmony is substantially restored or if the complainant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. Anil/- (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.