Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30873 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Jay Nath Prasad Yadav 2. Shakuntala Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.31322 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajeev Kumar Ranjan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the parents of the husband and the husband himself of the complainant are apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture. It is submitted on behalf of Rajeev Kumar Ranjan, husband of the complainant that he is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour but the impugned order reflects that the reconciliation failed since the complainant refused to resume the conjugal life. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30873 of 2012 (2) dt.29-08-2012 2/3 In the circumstances, the husband-petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 1,500/- per month 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 above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Complaint Case No. 524C of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The husband-petitioner will serve a copy of this order to the complainant within a period of two weeks when it is expected that the complainant will supply her bank account number to the petitioner by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below within a period of three week from the date of receipt/production of the copy of this order. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30873 of 2012 (2) dt.29-08-2012 3/3 Three consecutive defaults in making payment by the husband-petitioner will give liberty to the complainant to file an application for cancellation of bail of the husband petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.