Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14089 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ram Narain Malakar @ Ram Narain Bhandari 2. Shambhu Bhandari. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the parental uncle and brother-in- law (Bahnoi) of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in connection with Khanpur P.S. Case No. 76 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after one year of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant has retracted from his initial version and other accused Hari Mohan Bhandari has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 840 of 2012. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioners surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14089 of 2012 (2) dt.18-04-2012 2/2 within a period of six weeks. 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 petitioners. 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.