Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7463 of 2012 ====================================================== Sintu Kumar .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-03-2012 Heard the learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case punishable under [STATUTE] . On instructions, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour. Hence, the accusation is not being deliberated. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the petitioner, above named, be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Kashichak P.S. Case No. 62 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7463 of 2012 (2) dt.14-03-2012 2 / 2 2 to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M., Nawada, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Let the learned court below issue notice to the informant and on her appearance the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed by the learned court below in two eventualities if the matrimonial harmony is restored substantially within one year or the wife deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. 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.