Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9761 of 2012 ====================================================== Gautam Prasad & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-05-2012 Petitioners being brother and brother’s wives of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that earlier [STATUTE] . case was lodged in which petitioners were also made accused which ended into compromise and subsequently the informant’s daughter was taken by the accused persons to Orissa where her husband was working and from there the victim went in the company of her husband to Puri from where she disappeared when the husband filed SDE No. 511 on 29.06.2010. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioners namely 1. Gautam Prasad 2. Arti Devi 3. Hira Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9761 of 2012 (3) dt.04-05-2012 2 / 2 2 from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Ekma P.S. Case No. 05 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.