Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19903 of 2012 ====================================================== Raju Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 20-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, complainant and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of performing marriage on 13.01.2010 and inflicting torture, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner filed Complaint Case No. 1989 of 2009 on 24.12.2009 alleging that complainant’s side are pressurizing for the marriage when no marriage was performed and thereafter on 13.01.2010 the present case has been lodged. Without expressing any opinion on the relationships between the parties, since petitioner’s side filed Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19903 of 2012 (3) dt.20-07-2012 2 / 2 2 the complaint at earlier point of time, let the petitioner namely Raju Kumar, in the event of his arrest or 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sadar, Sitamarhi in connection with Complaint Case No. 51 of 2010, corresponding to Trial No. 2808 of 2010. Shageer/- (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.