Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37557 of 2012 ====================================================== Sardha Devi @ Sharda Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the third wife of the husband of the complainant is apprehending arrest in Complaint Case No. 1104 of 2002 in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad. The accusation is of torture and performing second marriage by the husband. It appears that husband of the complainant has been granted regular bail by this Court on certain condition of payment vide Cr. Misc. No. 25687 of 2012. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner preferably on the same day if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37557 of 2012 (2) dt.03-10-2012 2/2 Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost 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.