Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23096 of 2012 ====================================================== Naseer Quaraisi @ Naseer, S/O Rahim Quaraisi, resident Of Village- Chhota Beldari, P.S.- Bettiah Muffasil, District- West Champaran. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Parties. ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.21388 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Rahim Quarasi S/O Late Rahman Quarasi, resident Of Village- Chhota Beldari, P.S.- Bettiah Muffasil, District- West Champaran. 2. Umran Khatoon, W/O Rahim Quarasi, resident Of Village- Chhota Beldari, P.S.- Bettiah Muffasil, District- West Champaran. 3. Rehana Khatoon, D/O Rahim Quarasi, resident Of Village- Chhota Beldari, P.S.- Bettiah Muffasil, District- West Champaran. 4. Afasana Khatoon, D/O Rahim Quarasi, resident Of Village- Chhota Beldari, P.S.- Bettiah Muffasil, District- West Champaran .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-11-2012 None appears for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the husband, parents and sisters of the husband of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23096 of 2012 (3) dt.05-11-2012 2 / 3 2 The accusations are of torture and demand of dowry. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that though the husband Naseer Quaraisi @ Naseer has performed second marriage even then the informant is ready to resume conjugal life. In the circumstances, the petitioner Naseer Quaraisi @ Naseer be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year and the petitioners Rahim Quarasi, Umran Khatoon, Rehana Khatoon and Afasana Khatoon 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 Chanpatia P.S. Case No. 36 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Bettiah, West Champaran, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The petitioner Naseer Quaraisi @ Naseer and the informant shall appear before the learned court below on 03.12.2012 when the petitioner Naseer Quaraisi @ Naseer will take back the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23096 of 2012 (3) dt.05-11-2012 3 / 3 3 The provisional bail of the petitioner Naseer Quaraisi @ Naseer will be confirmed by the learned court below in three eventualities if the matrimonial harmony is restored substantially within one year or the wife deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner Naseer Quaraisi @ Naseer or she fails to appear before the learned court below. U.K./- (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.