Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1181 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajoo Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 16-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusations are of demand of dowry and torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the marriage was performed in the year 2004 and in the year 2008 the petitioner filed the divorce case thereafter the present case has been lodged. Considering the lodging of the complaint after lodging of the divorce case by the petitioner, 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 the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. 342 of 2009 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 379

Statute Text:
Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code. Theft. Whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.