Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12501 of 2012 ====================================================== Sourabh Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband 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. The accusation is of torture for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that before the learned court also the petitioner offered the informant to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour when the informant was not present but even the learned Sessions Judge directed to release the petitioner on bail but wife only appeared before the learned magistrate. Considering the stand of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12501 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 2/2 Court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Teghra P.S. Case No. 207 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Let the learned court below issue notice to the informant for her appearance when the petitioner will take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed if the matrimonial harmony is substantially restored or if the informant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner or if she fails to appear. Amrendra/- (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.