Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8759 of 2012 ====================================================== Jitendra Tiwary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 25-06-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of putting the wife on fire, for non- fulfilment of dowry demand. Petitioner is ready to keep O.P. No. 2 as wife with full dignity and honour and get her treated. The offer is acceptable to O.P. No. 2 being wife who is present before this Court. In the circumstance, petitioner undertakes to take the O.P. No. 2 from the Court itself to her matrimonial house. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Jitendra Tiwary, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8759 of 2012 (3) dt.25-06-2012 2 / 2 2 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Bheldi P.S. Case No. 79 of 2010. If the petitioner fails to comply the undertaking, O.P. No. 2 will be at liberty to file appropriate application for cancellation of bail of the petitioner. 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.