Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9733 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Kumar Pandey @ Manoj Pandey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture. The marriage was performed in 2008. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has filed divorce case on 27.07.2010 and thereafter present case has been filed on 19.08.2011. The petitioner is ready to pay Rs.1,000/- per month to the informant by depositing Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9733 of 2012 (2) dt.29-03-2012 2/3 the same in the back account of the informant from May, 2012 by 2nd week of every month. 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Kateya P.S. Case No. 182 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Let the petitioner serve a copy of this order to the informant when it is expected that she will supply her bank account number by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below within a period of three weeks. The aforesaid payment will be subject to the any order passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Three consecutive defaults in making Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9733 of 2012 (2) dt.29-03-2012 3/3 payment will give liberty to the informant to file application for cancellation of 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.