Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34162 of 2011 ====================================================== Santu Bind .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 27-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. In pursuance to the order dated 13.10.2011, the petitioner and opposite party no.2 are present, both are ready to resume the conjugal life. The petitioner is ready to take the opposite party no.2 to her matrimonial house from the court itself to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. The petitioner denies to have performed second marriage. Considering the stand of the parties, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34162 of 2011 (4) dt.27-02-2012 2 / 2 2 arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sasaram, Rohtas in connection with Complaint Case No. 758 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The opposite party no.2 is at liberty to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner if the petitioner fails to comply the undertaking given before this Court. Amrendra/- (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.