Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19600 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Kumar Gupta .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 09-10-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The notices were issued to opposite party No. 2 on 22.05.2012 but none appears on behalf of O.P. No. 2. The accusations are of torture and performing another marriage after performing marriage with the informant who is second wife of petitioner. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner has not performed any marriage after marrying with the informant and is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the aforesaid stand of the petitioner, let the petitioner namely Ram Kumar Gupta, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19600 of 2012 (3) dt.09-10-2012 2 / 2 2 weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year, 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, Saharsa in connection with Saharsa Sadar P.S. Case No. 560 of 2011. Let learned Court below issue notice to the informant and fix a date for her appearance. On appearance of the informant, the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional anticipatory bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned Court below on substantial restoration of the matrimonial harmony within a period of one year, or if the informant deliberately refuses to reside with 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.