IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.33315 of 2010 JITENDRA RAM, SON OF VIRAJAN RAM, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE GHANNU VISHUNPUR @ MATIYARA, P.S. SARAI, DISTRICT VAISHALI.—PETITIONER Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. ANITA DEVI, WIFE OF JITENDRA RAM, DAUGHTER OF VIPAT RAM, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE RATANPURA, P.S. BHAGWANPUR, DISTRICT VAISHALI --- OPPOSITE PARTIES ----------- 2 12.10.2010 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case under Sections 498A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Petitioner is the husband. There is allegation of assault and demand of dowry. It appears from the order of the Court below that the Court below attempted to resoleve the matter between husband and wife. The wife was ready to live with her husband but the husband refused to go her wife’s home to take her to his house. In the circumstances, this court grants one more chance to t he petitioner to settle the matter with his wife. Petitioner will file surrender-cum-bail application in the Court below. The Court below hearing the matter will issue notice to Anita Devi i.e. the wife. If the wife is ready to live with her husband then the Court below may 2 order that the wife should leave with her husband from the Court itself instead insisting that the husband should go to the house of the opposite party no. 2 specially as the relationships between the families have become strained. The Court below will also grant provisional bail to the petitioner if he files the surrender-cum- bail application within a period of eight weeks on receipt of a copy of this order till disposal of the compromise matter. This anticipatory bail application is disposed of with the aforesaid observations. Sanjay ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)