Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25665 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Salloo .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 29-11-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . Notices were issued to the complainant on 26.07.2012. None appears on behalf of the complainant. The accusation is of torture. Petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Md. Salloo, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhubani in connection with C.R. Case No. 2084 of 2008, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25665 of 2012 (3) dt.29-11-2012 2 / 2 2 T.R. No. 2576 of 2009. The grant of bail to the petitioner will not preclude the complainant to resume the conjugal life. If the complainant files an application for resuming the conjugal life before learned Court below then learned Court below will issue notice to the petitioner when the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Non-compliance of the undertaking by the petitioner will give liberty to the complainant to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. 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.