Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19973 of 2012 ====================================================== Shashi Bhushan Prasad .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 21-06-2012 Petitioner being husband of the complainant is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of torture, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on 06.08.2010 the petitioner filed a complainant when complainant established physical relationship with some other boy and thereafter the present complaint has been lodged on 04.10.2010. Considering the fact that petitioner lodged the complaint at earlier point of time which clouds the bona fide of the accusation, let the petitioner namely Shashi Bhushan Prasad, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19973 of 2012 (2) dt.21-06-2012 2 / 2 2 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 Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, East, Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. 2995 of 2010, Trial No. 2216 of 2011. 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.