Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6757 of 2012 (3) dt.06-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6757 of 2012 ====================================================== Sarvottam Kumar @ Bablu Kumar .... .... Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Parties ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. In spite of valid service of notice upon Opposite Party no.2, none appears on behalf of Opposite Party no.2. Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrested in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torturing the complainant. The petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour and has filed restitution case also. It appears from the order dated 24.12.2009 passed in Restitution Case No.425 of 2008 that the complaint refused to reside with the petitioner. In the circumstances, 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 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 Sub Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6757 of 2012 (3) dt.06-04-2012 Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Patna in Complaint Case No.3365(C) of 2008, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. B.Kr./- (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.