Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14095 of 2012 ====================================================== Pintu Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture and performing second marriage. The petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 4,000/- per month to the informant from June, 2012 by depositing the same in the bank account of the informant by second week of every month. The aforesaid offer of the petitioner is acceptable to the learned counsel for the informant who undertakes to supply the bank account number of the informant to the petitioner by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14095 of 2012 (2) dt.18-04-2012 2/2 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 satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj, Rohtas in connection with Natwar P.S. Case No. 84 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Three consecutive defaults in making payment by the petitioner will give liberty to the informant to file an application for cancellation of bail 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.