Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5510 of 2012 ====================================================== Sonu Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-02-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Learned counsels for both sides, on instruction submit that both sides are ready for reconciliation. Both sides agree to appear before learned Court below on 26th of March, 2012 when petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the aforesaid stand of the parties, let the petitioner namely Sonu Kumar, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5510 of 2012 (2) dt.27-02-2012 2 / 2 2 year on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Nayagaon P.S. Case No. 47 of 2011. The provisional anticipatory bail of the petitioner will be confirmed on substantial restoration of matrimonial harmony or if the informant substantially refuses to reside with the petitioner in the matrimonial house. 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.