Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10062 of 2012 ====================================================== Anirudh Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioner that after fixation of the marriage of the complainant’s daughter with the petitioner, the marriage was not solemnized for non-fulfillment of the demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on the same day the complainant was married with some other boy where the statement has been made that no ‘Tilak’ was performed with the petitioner. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10062 of 2012 (2) dt.02-04-2012 2/2 satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sadar, Motihari in connection with Trial No. 435 of 2011 arising out of Complaint Case No. 106 of 1997, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 509

Statute Text:
Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code. Uttering any word or making any gesture intended to insult the modesty of a woman, etc. Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sound or gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, or that such gesture or object shall be seen, by such woman, or intrudes upon the privacy of such woman, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, and also with fine.