Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26993 of 2012 ====================================================== Shambhu Pandit .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 13.08.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. The offer is acceptable to the learned counsel for the complainant, but it is submitted that the petitioner has performed second marriage when it is accepted by the petitioner and is stated that since there was no issue from the complainant for ten years then the petitioner has performed second marriage with the consent of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26993 of 2012 (2) dt.13-08-2012 2/3 complainant, which is being denied by the learned counsel for the complainant. Learned counsel for the complainant submits that she is still ready to resume the conjugal life. In the circumstances, both sides appear before the learned court below on 3rd of September, 2012 when the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial home to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the stand of the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on provisional anticipatory bail for one year in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Biharsharif, Nalanda in connection with Complaint Case No. 520C of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The provisional bail of the petitioner will be confirmed within one year by the learned court below on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26993 of 2012 (2) dt.13-08-2012 3/3 substantial restoration of the matrimonial harmony or if the complainant deliberately refuses to reside with the petitioner. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 379

Statute Text:
Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code. Theft. Whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.