Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24988 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Gunja Kumari 2. Bina Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 10-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the mother and sister of the husband of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture. The thrust of accusation is against the husband of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the husband will appear by filing anticipatory bail application or will surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks. After filing of the anticipatory bail application by the husband of the informant or surrender, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24988 of 2012 (3) dt.10-09-2012 2/2 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 SDJM, Lakhisarai in connection with Barhiya P.S. Case No. 40 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.