Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.16587 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Shoaib Akhtar @ Shoaib Akhtar @ Shaib Akhtar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant is apprehending 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. The informant is the second wife of the petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that he is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour, but in a case lodged before Women Help Line, Gopalganj she refused to reside with the petitioner and in pursuance to the court’s order, the petitioner is paying maintenance of Rs. 1,000/- per month to the informant. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.16587 of 2012 (2) dt.04-05-2012 2/2 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 the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Barauli P.S. Case No. 111 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Three consecutive defaults in making payment by the petitioner will give liberty to the informant to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.