Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14865 of 2012 ====================================================== Raj Kumar Chaudhary @ Raju Chaudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 6 09-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. In pursuance to notices issued on 09.04.2012, the complainant and opposite party no.2 are present. Both sides agree to resolve the issue. The petitioner is ready to take the complainant to her matrimonial house from the court itself to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The offer of the petitioner is acceptable to the complainant. Considering the stand of the parties, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14865 of 2012 (6) dt.09-10-2012 2/2 satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, East Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. 3600 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. If the petitioner will substantially violate the undertaking given before this Court then the complainant will be at liberty to file an appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the 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.