Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31593 of 2012 ====================================================== Pinki Devi & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 31-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the brothers and brother’s wife of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant by putting her on fire for non- fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted that the informant has admitted in opening line of the F.I.R. that his sister’s marriage was performed in 1997 and there is no eye witness to occurrence and petitioners are separate from the husband of the victim. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners Pinki Devi, Subodh Yadav, Vijay Yadav and Sudhir Yadav be released on bail in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31593 of 2012 (2) dt.31-08-2012 2 / 2 2 arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Manpur P.S. Case No. 18 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Bihar Shariff (Nalanda), subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.