Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.13278 of 2012 ====================================================== Arun Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 12-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the informant is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture and performing second marriage. From the impugned order, it appears that due to second marriage performed by the petitioner the informant is not ready to reside with the petitioner. In the circumstances, the petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 1,000/- per month to the informant from June, 2012 by depositing the same in the bank account of the informant by second week of every month. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.13278 of 2012 (2) dt.12-04-2012 2/2 of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Hawai Adda P.S. Case No. 223 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The petitioner will serve a copy of this order to the informant within a period of three weeks when it is expected that the informant will supply her bank account number to the petitioner by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Three consecutive defaults in making payment by the petitioner will give liberty to the informant to file an application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 494

Statute Text:
Section 494 of the Indian Penal Code. Marrying again during the life-time of a husband or wife. Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such marriage is void by reason of its taking place during the life of such husband or wife, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.