Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32251 of 2012 ====================================================== Sharwan Kumar Mehta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-09-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State Mr. J.N. Thakur. Petitioner being husband of the complainant is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. Similar was the stand before learned Court below but the complainant refused to reside with the petitioner which gets reflected from the impugned order. In the alternative, petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 500/- to the complainant from October, 2012, by depositing the same in the bank account of the complainant by second week of every month. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32251 of 2012 (2) dt.04-09-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioner namely Sharwan Kumar Mehta, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Patna City in connection with Complaint Case No. 579 of 2011. The petitioner will serve a copy of this order to the complainant within a period of two weeks when it is expected from the complainant to supply her bank account number within a period of three weeks thereafter, by filing the same through affidavit before learned Court below. The aforesaid payments will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Three consecutive defaults in making payment will give liberty to the complainant to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.