Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29890 of 2012 ====================================================== Sundarpati Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother husband of the informant is apprehending arrest in Bettiah Town P.S. Case No. 143 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran. The accusation is of torture. It is alleged against the petitioner that she caused burnt injury to the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that now the matter has been reconciled and the husband and other family members of the husband of the informant have been granted regular bail. In view of this Court, it is a fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29890 of 2012 (2) dt.24-08-2012 2/2 the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks keeping in view the delayed lodging of the FIR. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.