Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18862 of 2012 ====================================================== Sanjay Kumar Thakur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband of the complainant is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The petitioner is ready to keep his wife with full dignity and honour. The offer of the petitioner is acceptable to the counsel appearing for the complainant. Both sides agree to appear before the learned court below on 16th of July, 2012 when the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Considering the stands of the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18862 of 2012 (2) dt.20-06-2012 2/2 satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Chapra (Saran) in connection with Complaint Case No. 3462 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The complainant is at liberty to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner if the petitioner violates the undertaking given before this Court. 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.