Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18365 of 2012 ====================================================== Manoj Ravidas .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-05-2012 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 but the complainant has performed second marriage. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Manoj Ravidas, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa, Nalanda in connection with Complaint Case No. 875C of 2008. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18365 of 2012 (2) dt.16-05-2012 2 / 2 2 Let learned Court below issue notice to the complainant and get the matter verified from the police station concerned that complainant has performed second marriage or not and if she has performed the second marriage then the provisional anticipatory bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by learned Court below. On non-performance of second marriage by the complainant, the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour and in that eventuality the provisional anticipatory bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by learned Court below on substantial restoration of matrimonial harmony between the parties within a period of one year, or complainant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner, or she fails to appear before learned Court below. 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.