Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.10286 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sumit Kumar Suman S/O Niranjan Das R/O Vill-Charuipar, P.S.Noorsarai, Distt-Nalanda .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Lalita Kumari D/O Devendra Sao R/O Naya Tola, Mokama, P.S.Mokama , Distt-Patna .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-04-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for offence punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is that the complainant got married with the petitioner in the year 2008. Subsequently, she was driven out from the house. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is a married person having kids aged 5 years and 3 years. In the Court a medical document has been produced on behalf of the complainant that she delivered a child and was under treatment since 2009. This fact has not been incorporated in the complaint petition filed in the year 2011 which Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.10286 of 2012 (2) dt.02-04-2012 2 / 2 2 suggests that frivolous nature of accusation levelled by the complainant. Considering the aforesaid, let petitioner named above be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender in the court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case no.780 ( C ) of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Biharsharif at Nalanda, subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. sudip/- (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.