Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20010 of 2012 ====================================================== Lakshman Rai .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture. It is alleged that the complainant was initially married with the elder brother of the petitioner and after his death, she was married with this petitioner when the torture is being inflicted. The marriage is being denied by the petitioner, though, the petitioner is ready to keep the complainant in her matrimonial house with full dignity and honour and will allow the complainant to enjoy her share of the property. The counsel for the complainant accepts the offer of the petitioner. Considering the stands of the parties, without expressing any opinion with regard to the relationship of the petitioner and complainant, the petitioner is directed to be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20010 of 2012 (3) dt.05-11-2012 2/2 learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Barh, Panta in connection with Complaint Case No. 106C of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioner shall be accepted on filing affidavit before the learned court below to the effect that the petitioner and his parents shall allow the complainant to reside in the matrimonial house and to enjoy her share of the property. The said affidavit will be sworn by the petitioner and his parents. The copy of the said affidavit will be transmitted to the concerned police station and the police station will regularly monitor that the petitioner and his parents are complying the undertaking given before this Court. 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.