Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29014 of 2012 ====================================================== Dasrath Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to make necessary correction in the prayer portion of the petition. The petitioner being the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in connection with S. Tr. No. 434 of 2011 arising out of Jhajha P.S. Case No. 109 of 2010 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Additional District Judge, F.T.C.-III, Jamui. The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after six years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that in fact the victim committed suicide. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29014 of 2012 (2) dt.14-08-2012 2/2 the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within a period of six weeks keeping in view the retracted version of the informant from his initial version. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.