Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3170 of 2012 ====================================================== Balmukund Pandey@Rakesh Kumar Pandey .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 01-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered under Sections 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act. The accusation is that some powder like substance was recovered which was suspected to be manufacturing material for explosives. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the seizure list witnesses are none else than the brother in law of the petitioner. Earlier, wife of the petitioner had lodged a case under [STATUTE] . Lodging of the case by the wife of the petitioner just before institution of this case and the brother in law becoming the witness of the seizure cloud the bonafide of the seizure. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3170 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner, 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamui in connection with Chakai P.S. Case No. 138 /2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.