Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.655 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Thakur Yadav @ Thakur Dayal Yadav 2. Dulari Devi 3. Arjesh Kumar Yadav @ Arjesh Yadav. 4. Dhanesh Kumar Yadav @ Dhanesh Yadav. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 11-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the uncle and cousin brothers of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The marriage was performed in the year 2003. The accusation is of demand of dowry and torture and subsequently administering poison. It is submitted by learned Sr. counsel for the petitioners that from the complaint it appears that the informant was informed about the illness of the victim and after his reaching to the in- laws house the victim died. Considering the relationship between the petitioner and the victim and the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara in connection with Ara Mufassil P.S. Case No. 207 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.