Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27218 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Raghunath Rai @ Raghunath Yadav 2. Mishri Lal Prasad Yadav @ Mishri Yadav 3. Mukesh Kumar 4. Rakesh Yadav @ Rakesh Kumar 5. Meena Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-08-2012 Petitioners being grand-father, parents and brothers of the husband of the complainant are apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of torture. It is submitted that husband has not been made accused. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that parents of the husband of the complainant undertakes to allow the complainant to enjoy her share of property in the in-laws house and ready to state the same on affidavit before learned Court below. On filing of the aforesaid undertaking through affidavit before learned Court below, let the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27218 of 2012 (2) dt.03-08-2012 2 / 2 2 released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran/Motihari in connection with Complaint Case No. C 520 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.