Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3407 of 2012 ====================================================== Pradeep Jha @ Trideep Jha & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 02-02-2012 Petitioners being brothers, their wives, sister and brother-in-law of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences 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 petitioners that the husband filed divorce case prior to lodging of the present case. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioners namely 1. Pradeep Jha @ Trideep Jha 2. Ranjan Jha 3. Savitri Devi 4. Krishna Kant Jha 5. Ragini Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3407 of 2012 (2) dt.02-02-2012 2 / 2 2 bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Sitamarhi in connection with Complaint Case No. C-1/144 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.