Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21095 of 2012 ====================================================== Birendra Thakur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-07-2012 Petitioner being husband of the complainant is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture. Petitioner is ready to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour and it is submitted that petitioner is also paying Rs. 2600/- per month to the complainant as maintenance in pursuance to the order of learned Court below. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Birendra Thakur, 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. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Madhubani in connection with Cr. Case No. 1384 of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21095 of 2012 (2) dt.16-07-2012 2 / 2 2 2008, corresponding to T.R. No. 4756 of 2011. The grant of bail to the petitioner will not preclude the complainant to resume conjugal life. If the complainant files such an application before learned Court below, the petitioner will abide the undertakings given before this Court and take the complainant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. 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.