Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20218 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Tara Devi 2. Dinku @ Ramaknat. 3. Chatu @ Mani Kant. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 22-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged against the petitioners that they kidnapped the wife of the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that wife of the informant filed a case against the informant making accusation under [STATUTE] in which the statement of the informant’s wife was recorded. In para 6 of the statement, she has stated that since one of the accused Bantu who used to save her from the torture of her husband, hence the present false case has been lodged by the informant. Considering the statement of the wife of the informant, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20218 of 2012 (2) dt.22-06-2012 2/2 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 thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Kotwali P.S. Case No. 126 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.