Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30442 of 2012 ====================================================== Kalamuddin .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. Hina Kauser @ Chandani .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 20-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Though the petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour, but it is submitted that the complainant has refused to resume the conjugal life which gets reflected from paragraph 5 of the impugned order. In the circumstances, the petitioner is ready to pay Rs.500/- per month from November, 2012 to the complainant by depositing the same in her account by second week of every month. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30442 of 2012 (2) dt.20-09-2012 2/2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sadar, Motihari in connection with Complaint Case No. C-795 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The petitioner undertakes to supply a copy of this order to the complainant within a period of three weeks from today when it is expected that the complainant will supply bank account number by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceedings. Three consecutive defaults in making payment will give liberty to the complainant to file application for cancellation of bail 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.