Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9339 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mahendra Singh, 2. Guddan Singh alias Guddan Kumar, 3. Shakuntla Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioner nos. 1 and 3 being parents and petitioner no. 2 being husband himself are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after three years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the informant has subsequently retracted from the initial version. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband, this court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner no. 2. However, the learned court below may consider his prayer for regular bail in case he surrenders before the learned court below keeping in view the retracted version of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9339 of 2012 (2) dt.27-03-2012 2 / 2 2 the informant. So far as other petitioners are concerned, let the above named petitioner nos. 1 and 3 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Narhat P.S. Case No. 69 /2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.