Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19090 of 2012 ====================================================== Ashok Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Kanchan Devi .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 14-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The notices were issued to the informant vide order dated 14.06.2012 but none is appearing on behalf of the informant – O.P. No. 2. The petitioner is ready to keep the informant as wife with full dignity and honour. In the circumstances, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19090 of 2012 (3) dt.14-09-2012 2/2 within a period of twelve 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 learned CJM, Nalanda at Biharsharif in connection with Bihar P.S. Case No. 13 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The grant of bail to the petitioner will not preclude the informant to resume conjugal life, if such application files then the learned court below will issue notice to the petitioner when the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial home to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. DKS/ (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.