Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30584 of 2012 ====================================================== Pankaj Kishore Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-08-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour and similar was the stand in the restitution case being Matrimonial Case No. 1502 of 2010 when the complainant refused to reside with the petitioner. Similar is the stand of the complainant here also as suggested by her counsel. In the alternative, petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 1000/- to the complainant from October, 2012, by depositing the same in the bank account of the complainant by second week of every month. The aforesaid offer is acceptable to the complainant who undertakes to supply the bank account Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30584 of 2012 (2) dt.28-08-2012 2 / 2 2 number within a period of three weeks by filing the same on affidavit before learned Court below. Considering the stand of the parties, let the petitioner namely Pankaj Kishore Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Complaint Case No. 1785 of 2010, Trial No. 1940 of 2012. The aforesaid payments will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Three consecutive defaults in payment will give liberty to the complainant to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. Shageer/- (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.