Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24228 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ramchandra Prasad 2. Dulari Devi. 3. Sidharth Kumar. 4. Raja Kumar @ Raja @ Sandeep Kumar. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the family members of the husband of the informant are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the husband of the informant has been granted provisional anticipatory bail on the undertaking that he will keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24228 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 2/2 thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Narahat P.S. Case No. 91 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. 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.