Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34356 of 2012 ====================================================== Manisha Devi & Ors .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant was married to one Basim Raza on 07.01.1992 and in 2003 he was involved in rape case when certain land in favour of petitioner no.3 Anil Sardar was fraudulently got executed from the informant’s husband. It is submitted that said sale deed was executed in 2004 when the present complaint has been filed on 27.04.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 11.05.2011 and the petitioners are not family members of the informant or of her husband. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34356 of 2012 (2) dt.13-09-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners Manisha Devi, Babita Devi, Anil Sardar and Arjun Sardar 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 Madhepura P.S. Case No. 193 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Madhepura, 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: 497

Statute Text:
Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code. Adultery. Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both. In such case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor.