Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.45424 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Ekbal & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-12-2012 Petitioners being father of husband and the husband himself are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioner No. 2 being husband of the informant is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour, hence the accusation is not being deliberated. Considering the present stand of the petitioner No. 2, let the petitioner No. 2 namely Md. Abid Hussain @ Abid Hussain, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.45424 of 2012 (2) dt.17-12-2012 2 / 2 2 sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Buxar(Mahila) P.S. Case No. 10 of 2012. Let learned Court below issue notice to the informant and fix a date for her appearance. On appearance of the informant, the petitioner No. 2 will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional anticipatory bail of the petitioner No. 2 will be confirmed by the learned Court below on substantial restoration of the matrimonial harmony within a period of one year, or if the informant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner No. 2. Considering the present stand of petitioner No. 2, let the petitioner No. 1 namely Md. Ekbal, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Buxar(Mahila) P.S. Case No. 10 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.