Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.40796 of 2012 ====================================================== Droupadi @ Droupati Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the informant is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the informant was married with the son of the petitioner in the year 2006 and subsequently demand of dowry of Rs. 50,000/- was made when the informant was administered poison by her husband, this petitioner and two other persons. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that injury report reflects only abrasion simple in nature when no sign of poisoning was found. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the informant, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.40796 of 2012 (2) dt.23-11-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, West Muzaffarpur in connection with Kudhani P.S. Case No. 81 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 342

Statute Text:
Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully confining any person. Whoever wrongfully confines any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.