Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6791 of 2012 ====================================================== Amit Raj .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-03-2012 Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Both sides are ready for reconciliation. Learned senior counsel for the petitioner submits that marriage was performed on 04.06.2009 when the complaint was filed on 25.10.2010 with specific statement that the marriage never been consummated and before the Sessions Judge offer of the petitioner to keep the complainant as wife was accepted but subsequently she filed the list of certain articles to be returned as pre-condition of reconciliation. At present counsel for the complainant on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6791 of 2012 (2) dt.07-03-2012 2 / 2 2 instruction submits that she is ready for reconciliation. Both sides agree to appear before the learned court below on 16.04.2012 when the petitioner will take back the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the stand of the parties, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Complaint Case No. 2902(C) of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned J.M. Ist Class, Patna, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.