Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14458 of 2012 ====================================================== Sunil Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar & Anr. .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-04-2012 Petitioner being husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ 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 marriage was performed in 1998. It is further submitted that when a male child was born and his DNA test showed that petitioner was not the biological father of the child as contained in Annexure-2, then the petitioner filed a case for dissolution of marriage on 17.12.2010 and thereafter on 12.09.2011 the present case has been lodged. Petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 1500/- to the informant from June, 2012, by depositing the same in the bank Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14458 of 2012 (2) dt.20-04-2012 2 / 2 2 account of the informant by second week of every month. Let the petitioner serve a copy of this order within a period of two weeks, when it is expected from the informant to supply her bank account number two weeks thereafter by filing the same on affidavit before learned Court below. Considering the stand of the parties, let the petitioner namely Sunil Kumar Singh, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara in connection with Ara Mufassil P.S. Case No. 228 of 2011. The aforesaid payments will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceeding. Three consecutive defaults in payment will give liberty to the informant 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.