Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7578 of 2012 ====================================================== Vinod Das .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Jyoti Kumari @ Jyoti Devi .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 14-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusations are of torture and making assault. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the marriage was performed in 2007 when the divorce case has been filed on 22.02.2011 and thereafter present complaint has been filed on 15.04.2011. The petitioner has filed the certified copy of the order dated 29.06.2011 passed in Divorce Case No. 32 of 2011 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7578 of 2012 (2) dt.14-03-2012 2/2 which suggests that in spite of the petitioner’s offer to take the complainant to matrimonial house she refused to reconciliation. Let the certified copy of the order be kept on record. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Complaint Case No. 648C of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 323

Statute Text:
Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.