Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26983 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sonia Devi 2. Bharat Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 08-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the second wife and father-in-law of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. It is alleged that the daughter of the informant was married with Kamando Yadav subsequent to the marriage of Kamando Yadav with petitioner no. 1 when the daughter of the informant was residing at informant’s place when Kamando Yadav came to take her back in the matrimonial house and in the night in the house of the informant killed by causing firearm injury. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26983 of 2012 (3) dt.08-11-2012 2/2 petitioners that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim and only accusation against the petitioners is that they used to torture the daughter of the informant. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned ACJM, Naugachiya, District - Bhagalpur in connection with Ismailpur P.S. Case No. 45 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.