Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25624 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Zuned Alam .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 07-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of confining the informant and establishing forceful physical relationship by this petitioner. The accusation has further been supported by the victim in her 164 Cr.P.C. statement. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is cousin brother (Mausera Bhai) of the informant. The victim went in the company of this petitioner on 30.10.2011, the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25624 of 2012 (2) dt.07-08-2012 2/3 marriage was performed on 31.10.2011 and on 30.11.2011 the father of this petitioner lodged a complaint case against the informant’s side making accusation under [STATUTE] when restitution case was filed by the petitioner on 09.12.2011 when the present case has been lodged on 11.12.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that since the father of the informant is dead and she was put under confinement, hence, after her release she lodged the case. Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR and lodging of complaint case by the father of the petitioner and restitution case by the petitioner at earlier point of time, 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 twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Barsoi P.S. Case No. 250 of 2011, subject to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25624 of 2012 (2) dt.07-08-2012 3/3 conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.