Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19763 of 2012 ====================================================== Amar Kant Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Jamendra Mahto .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 17-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the complainant. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged in the complaint petition that the petitioner was married with the daughter of the complainant on 30.04.2009 as per the Hindu rites when the daughter of the complainant stayed at her matrimonial home for two days, thereafter demand of dowry and Hero Hondo motorcycle were made. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner denies the marriage when the learned counsel for the complainant brought on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19763 of 2012 (3) dt.17-08-2012 2/2 record an affidavit in support of the marriage which suggests that the marriage was performed in a temple situated at Masaurhi court campus without any dowry. Considering the inconsistency between the complaint and the affidavit, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Complaint Case No. 551 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.