Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32773 of 2012 ====================================================== Monako Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Binod Yadav .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 07-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s daughter was tortured and driven out from the matrimonial home when she committed suicide by jumping from the running train. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the accusation is not specific when the husband of the victim has not been made accused. The husband of this petitioner is in custody. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32773 of 2012 (2) dt.07-09-2012 2/2 named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her 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 Railway Judicial Magistrate, Ara, Bhojpur in connection with Ara Rail P.S. Case No. 33 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioner shall be accepted on filing affidavit that she will regularly cooperate in the investigation. The said affidavit will be transmitted to the I.O. concerned by the learned court below. The non-cooperation in investigation will give liberty to the prosecution to file application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner. DKS/ (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.