Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15147 of 2012 ====================================================== Athar Imam & Ors .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-04-2012 Petitioners being family members of the husband of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of making assault, giving the pregnancy terminated and torture for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that informant was not in the petitioners’ house, hence there was no accusation of making assault or torture. Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband, let the petitioners namely 1. Athar Imam 2. Hoor Jahan @ Noor Jahan 3. Nusrat Khatoon @ Nusrat @ Nuzrat Khatoon 4. Mansoor Alam, in the event of their arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15147 of 2012 (2) dt.24-04-2012 2 / 2 2 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Kurtha P.S. Case No. 108 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 313

Statute Text:
Section 313 of the Indian Penal Code. Causing miscarriage without woman's consent. Whoever commits the offence defined in the last preceding section without the consent of the woman, whether the woman is quick with child or not, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.