Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.23210 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Bishwanath Singh 2. Ajay Singh. 3. Sharda Devi. 4. Bimla Devi @ Bimla Singh. 5. Kiran Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the parents, brothers’ wife and other relative of the husband of the informant are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. The accusation against in-laws is of assaulting the informant on 29.12.2009 when the pregnancy got terminated. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the husband of the informant filed the divorce case at Delhi in the year 2010 then on 25.05.2011, the present case has been lodged whereas prior to that after receiving notice in the divorce case, the informant filed transfer petition before the Apex Court. Considering the case lodged by the husband at earlier Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23210 of 2012 (2) dt.05-07-2012 2/2 point of time, let the above named petitioners 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, Aurangabad in connection with Aurangabad (Town) P.S. Case No. 219 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.