Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.627 of 2012 Panchu Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- with Criminal Miscellaneous No.1238 of 2012 1. Akhtar @ Dewar Akhtar, 2. Hakra alias Dewar Hakra Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 10.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being family members of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of demand of dowry of rupees fifty thousand and making assault. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that injury was found to be simple. There is counter version of the occurrence also in which father of the husband also received injury. In the present case, the informant has not impleaded the husband as an accused though in the case lodged by father side, husband has also been made accused. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the 2 satisfaction of C.J.M. Araria in Araria (Tarbari) P.S. case no. 276 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/ ( 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.