Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34846 of 2012 ====================================================== Ranjana Kumari @ Ranjana Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 03-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the sister of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after about three years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was not sent up for trial by the police but differing with the same cognizance has been taken. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned court Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34846 of 2012 (2) dt.03-10-2012 2/2 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 CJM, Nalanda in connection with Hilsa P.S. Case No. 151 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.