Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44183 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shashi Bhushan Singh 2. Sugani Devi 3. Baby Devi 4. Sunil Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-12-2012 Petitioners being brother, brother’s wife, sister and relative of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after nine years of marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that as per own admission of the informant that marriage was performed in 2003, no case under Section 304B is made out when the informant has subsequently retracted from the initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.44183 of 2012 (2) dt.14-12-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners, above named, 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, Lakhisarai in connection with Barahiya P.S. Case No. 49 of 2012. 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.