Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21674 of 2012 ====================================================== Firoz Alam .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 15-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the Complainant is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The petitioner and the complainant are present. Both sides are ready to reconcile the issue. The petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. Both sides agree to appear before the learned court below on 1st of November, 2012 when the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional anticipatory bail granted to the petitioner on 12.06.2012, is extended for one year which will be confirmed by learned court below if the matrimonial harmony is substantially restored or if the complainant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner or if the complainant fails to appear. 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.