Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20400 of 2012 ====================================================== Santosh Kumar & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. Petitioners being married sisters and brother-in- law of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant, after six years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation is not specific against these petitioners and they are definitely, at present not part of the family of the husband of the deceased. It is further submitted that husband is in custody which has not been controverted by learned counsel for the informant. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20400 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioners namely 1. Santosh Kumar 2. Pinki Devi 3. Rubi Devi, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Kashi Chak (Sahpur) P.S. Case No. 69 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.