Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9582 of 2012 ====================================================== Vinod Choudhur @ Binod Kumar Chawdhur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Manoj Kumar No. 1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 28-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the full brother of the deceased is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioner along with his brothers and father strangulated the victim and put the dead body in a well. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the father of the deceased filed complaint making accusation under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act which was dismissed and in pursuance to the revisional order police Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9582 of 2012 (2) dt.28-03-2012 2/2 case was instituted. It appears that Narayan Choudhor and another were granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 14123 of 2011. I see no reason for the learned court below not to grant same privilege to the petitioner if he surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Baniapur P.S. Case No. 171 of 2010 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.