Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13608 of 2012 ====================================================== Imteyaz Ali @ Imtiaz Ali .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 03-09-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The basic accusation is of torture. The marriage is admitted between the parties and there is a child also out of the wedlock. The claim of the petitioner is that he has given divorce as per the muslim ritual which has been denied by the informant and informant is still ready to resume the conjugal life. In the circumstance, the reconciliation is not feasible at present. In the alternative, petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 2000/- to the informant from October, 2012, by depositing the same in the bank account of the informant by second week of every month. The aforesaid offer is acceptable to the informant Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13608 of 2012 (4) dt.03-09-2012 2 / 2 2 who undertakes to supply the bank account number within a period of three weeks by filing the same on affidavit before learned Court below. Considering the stand of the parties, let the petitioner namely Imteyaz Ali @ Imtiaz Ali, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail, 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, Bhojpur Ara in connection with Charpokhari P.S. Case No. 2 of 2012. The aforesaid payments will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Three consecutive defaults in payment will give liberty to the informant to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 323

Statute Text:
Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.