Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19059 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Manour Azad .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Parties. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 23-07-2012 Heard the learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of the D. P. Act. In pursuance to the order dated 20.06.2012, both the petitioner and informant are present and both are ready for reconciling the issue. Both parties agree to appear before the learned court below on 01.08.2012 when the petitioner will take back the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the stand of the parties, let the petitioner, above named, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19059 of 2012 (4) dt.23-07-2012 2 / 2 2 event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Bachhwara P.S. Case No. 114 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M., Begusarai, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned court below in three eventualities if the matrimonial harmony is restored substantially within one year or the informant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner 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.