Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13404 of 2012 ====================================================== Jaffar Hussain Siddiqui @ Achchan Babu .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. Both sides agrees to appear before the learned court below on 28th of May, 2012 when the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The aforesaid of offer of the petitioner is acceptable to the learned counsel for the complainant. Considering the stands of the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13404 of 2012 (2) dt.16-04-2012 2/2 furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna in connection with Complaint Case No. 1344C of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned court below within a period of one year if the matrimonial harmony is substantially restored or if the complainant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 498

Statute Text:
Section 498 of the Indian Penal Code. Enticing or taking away or detaining with a criminal intent a married woman. Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from any person having the care of her on behalf of that man, with intent that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.