Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25900 of 2012 ====================================================== Bishundeo Kumar Thakur & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-07-2012 Petitioners being father and brother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant, after six years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim was being treated and she died in Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College & Hospital, Bhagalpur when U.D. Case No. 5 of 2011 was registered. It is further submitted that postmortem reflects no external injury. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely 1. Bishundeo Kumar Thakur 2. Pankaj Kumar Pankaj, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25900 of 2012 (2) dt.27-07-2012 2 / 2 2 a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing 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, Khagaria in connection with Parbatta P.S. Case No. 162 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.