Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28910 of 2012 ====================================================== Ram Kumar Giri .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and ¾ of the D. P. Act. The basic accusations are of torture and performing second marriage. The petitioner denies to have performed second marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the marriage was performed in 2005 when the petitioner filed divorce case on 08.05.2012 then the complaint was filed on 14.05.2012 which came to be registered as police case on 03.07.2012. The petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 1,000/- per month to the informant from October, 2012 by depositing the same in the bank account of the informant by second week of every month. The offer Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28910 of 2012 (2) dt.14-08-2012 2 / 2 2 of the petitioner is acceptable to the informant and she undertakes to supply her bank account number by filing the same on affidavit within a period of three weeks before the learned court below. Considering the fact that divorce case was filed by the petitioner at earlier point of time and the present stand of the petitioner, let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Gopalganj (Mahila) P.S. Case No. 05 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Gopalganj, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceedings. Three consecutive defaults in making payment will give liberty to the informant to file an application for cancellation of bail of petitioner. U.K./- (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.