Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40548 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kanhai Rai 2. Most Tetari Kuar. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 08-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the brother and mother of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after three years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is general and omnibus accusation against entire in-laws’ family members. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim who as per counsel for the petitioners will surrender within a period of four weeks, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40548 of 2012 (2) dt.08-11-2012 2/2 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, East Champaran in connection with Pipra P.S. Case No. 214 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioners shall be accepted on surrender of the husband of the victim. 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.