Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34518 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Anil Sardar 2. Arjun Sardar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 01-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Though the petitioners are not the in-laws family members of the informant but it is alleged against the petitioners that they along with her husband tried to put the informant on fire. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that when the case was lodged by the wife of petitioner no. 2 being Complaint Case No. 277 of 2011 against the informant and others on 02.05.2011 then the present case was registered on 13.05.2011. Injury report Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34518 of 2012 (2) dt.01-10-2012 2/2 has been brought on record which suggests simple injury. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Madhepura in connection with Madhepura P.S. Case No. 198 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.