Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10965 of 2012 ====================================================== Ajay Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of torture for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. The marriage was performed on 20.02.2007, the petitioner filed the divorce case on 26.02.2009 when the present complaint was filed on 27.05.2009. Considering the lodging of the divorce case by the petitioner at earlier point of time, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10965 of 2012 (2) dt.05-04-2012 2/2 with Complaint Case No. 1418C of 2009, 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.