Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34148 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramashankar Chauhan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour. The offer of the petitioner is acceptable to the counsel appearing for the informant. Both sides agree to appear before the learned court below on 8th of October, 2012 when the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the stand of the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34148 of 2012 (2) dt.13-09-2012 2/2 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, Siwan in connection with Daraunda P.S. Case No. 38 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by learned court below if the matrimonial harmony is substantially restored or if the informant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. 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.