Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24421 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Awadh Yadav 2. Mithu Yadav 3. Peyari Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 19-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents and the brother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after five years of the marriage by administering poison for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the deceased, who as per the learned counsel for the petitioners is in custody, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24421 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 2/2 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh, Patna in connection with Ghoswari P.S. Case No. 12 of 2012, 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.