Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27454 of 2012 ====================================================== Gulam Ali .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Raushana Begum .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 16-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the complainant. 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] . The accusation is of torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the complainant that the petitioner has performed second marriage, which is being admitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner, but submits that the second marriage was performed with the consent of the complainant. The complainant is not ready to reconcile and prays for some maintenance. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27454 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 2/3 The petitioner is ready to pay Rs.1,800/- per month from October, 2012 to the complainant by depositing the same in her account by second week of every month. The offer is acceptable to the learned counsel for the complainant and he undertakes to supply bank account number by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below within a period of three weeks. Considering the stand of the petitioner, 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, Saran at Chapra in connection with Complaint Case No. 2017 of 2011, Tr. No. 2216 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceedings. Three consecutive defaults in making Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27454 of 2012 (2) dt.16-08-2012 3/3 payment will give liberty to the complainant to file application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. 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.