Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27173 of 2012 ====================================================== Baidehi Sharan Sinha .... .... Petitioner/s Versus State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture. The petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the restitution case has also been filed by the petitioner which has been decreed ex-parte. In the circumstances, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27173 of 2012 (2) dt.02-08-2012 2/2 connection with Complaint Case No. 1816 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The grant of bail to the petitioner will not preclude the complainant to resume the conjugal life and if she files such an application before the learned court below then the 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. 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.