Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25537 of 2012 (3) dt.12-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25537 of 2012 ====================================================== Prince Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 12-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the daughter of the informant went to get cloth stitched when this petitioner, who is Probationer Sub-Inspector misbehaved with the daughter of the informant when the villagers got the petitioner forcibly married with the daughter of the informant and subsequently the petitioner left the daughter of the informant in village on 29.04.2011 and thereafter, the present case was registered on12.07.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no proof with regard to the marriage when there is no evidence of any misbehaviour or force marriage. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25537 of 2012 (3) dt.12-12-2012 None appears for the informant. 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 CJM, Supaul in connection with Supaul P.S. Case No. 228 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: 496

Statute Text:
Section 496 of the Indian Penal Code. A person with fraudulent intention going through the ceremony of being married knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married. Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.