Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4522 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Chhotan Singh S/O Late Bhushan Mahto Resident Of Village- Dababigha, P.S- Ekangar Sarai, District- Nalanda 2. Gunjan Prasad S/O Chhotan Singh Resident Of Village- Dababigha, P.S- Ekangar Sarai, District- Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.4831 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Vidya Bhushan Prasad Sinha @ Bhushan Prasad S/O Late Jagdeo Prasad Resident Of Village- Bhathar, P.S.- Hilsa, District- Nalanda 2. Ranjeet Kumar S/O Late Ramchandra Prasad Resident Of Village- Bhathar, P.S.- Hilsa, District- Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 13.02.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, the and the informant. The petitioners being the father, elder brother and other relatives of the main accused Ranjan Kumar are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4522 of 2012 (2) dt.13-02-2012 2/3 It is alleged against Ranjan that he established physical relationship with the informant on promise of marriage. It is alleged against the petitioners that they approved the proposed bride and demanded dowry. It is submitted by Senior learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant was already married with someone else prior to the lodging of this case and without taking the divorce the marriage was being proposed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the marriage of the informant with earlier husband was dissolved. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against Ranjan, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4522 of 2012 (2) dt.13-02-2012 3/3 Nalanda in connection with Ekangar Sarai P.S. Case No. 120 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 493

Statute Text:
Section 493 of the Indian Penal Code. A man by deceit causing a woman not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit with him in that belief. Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit or have sexual intercourse with him in that belief, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.