Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29554 of 2012 ====================================================== Kush Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 10-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour, but it is submitted that the petitioner is giving maintenance of Rs.1,000/- per month. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29554 of 2012 (3) dt.10-09-2012 2/2 Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Complaint Case No. 637 of 2005, Tr. No. 269 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The provisional bail will be confirmed by the learned court below if the complainant agrees not to take maintenance and reside with the petitioner or if the complainant persists for taking maintenance amount. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 323

Statute Text:
Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing hurt. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.