Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40054 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pappu Khan S/O Badruddin Khan Resident of Village Salim Nagar, Police Station Mahashkhunt, District Khagaria. 2. Sajra Khatoon W/O Badruddin Khan Resident of Village Salim Nagar, Police Station Mahashkhunt, District Khagaria. 3. Yasmin @ Yashmin D/O Badruddin Khan Resident of Village Salim Nagar, Police Station Mahashkhunt, District Khagaria. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 01-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the brother, sister and mother of the husband of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and ¾ of the D. P. Act. The accusation is of inflicting cruelty for non-fulfillment of dowry demand when the injury was caused by Garasa. It is submitted that the case diary does not contain any injury report when thrust of accusation against the husband of the informant who as per learned counsel for the petitioners is in custody. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40054 of 2012 (2) dt.01-11-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Maheshkhut P.S. Case No. 95 of 2012 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 C.J.M. Khagaria, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.