Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2190 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijay Jha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 24-01-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Petitioner is ready to keep the wife with full dignity and honour. It is also submitted that restitution case has been filed, but the complainant is not willing to resume the conjugal life. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Vijay Jha @ Vijay Kumar Jha, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Begusarai in connection with Complaint Case No. 1749C of 2010. The grant of bail to the petitioner will not preclude the parties to resume the conjugal life. If any such application is filed by the complainant before learned Court below, then learned Court below will issue notice to the petitioner, when petitioner will appear and take the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. 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.