Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1196 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Baua Devi 2. Ranjit Das .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== 2 16-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the mother and brother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The marriage was performed in the 1997. The accusations are of demand of dowry and torture. It appears that the complaint was filed in the year 2000 which was subsequently registered as a police case in the year 2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the wife of the informant has retracted from her initial version and the informant is dead now and filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Nima Chandpura P.S. Case No. 13/2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (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.