Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19934 of 2012 ====================================================== Imteyaz Khan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 12-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant 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. The notices were issued to the complainant on 23.05.2012 but none is appearing on behalf of the complainant. The petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. In the circumstances, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19934 of 2012 (3) dt.12-09-2012 2/2 furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Complaint Case No. 644(C) of 2011, Tr. No. 1478 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The grant of bail to the petitioner will not preclude the complainant to resume the conjugal life and she files such application before the learned court below, the learned court below will issue notice to the petitioner when the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial home to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. 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.