Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35250 of 2012 ====================================================== Shree Ram Choubey @ Shri Ram Chauturvedi & Anr. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents of the husband of the complainant are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and ¾ of the D. P. Act. The accusation is of torture. It is submitted that during pendency of the present case, the complainant died when a separate case was lodged under [STATUTE] when the evidence came that the complainant died in accidental fire, petitioners were granted bail. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners Shree Ram Choubey @ Shri Ram Chauturvedi and Kusum Choubey @ Kushum Devi be released on bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35250 of 2012 (2) dt.18-09-2012 2 / 2 2 in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case No. 2665(C) of 2009, Tr. No. 868 of 2010 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 J.M. Ist Class, Gopalganj, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.