Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34785 of 2012 ====================================================== Parmanand Kamat .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 03-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the victim is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the victim wanted to accompany with the petitioner to Delhi which was not accepted by the petitioner when the petitioner assaulted the victim and subsequently caused fire injury when the victim died. The victim being the daughter of the informant died after four years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the informant side in habit of lodging frivolous cases when earlier a case of kidnapping Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34785 of 2012 (2) dt.03-10-2012 2/2 was lodged from the informant side in which the petitioner has been acquitted. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory to this petitioner in connection with Ladania P.S. Case No. 69 of 2011 pending in the court of learned CJM, Madhubani. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. 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.