IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.41512 of 2009 ANUJ MAHTO, SON OF TULSI MAHTO, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE LASANDHA, P.S. CHANDI, DISTRICT NALANDA. ---- PETITIONER Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ---- OPPOSITE PARTY ----------- 2 9.3.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the counsel appearing on behalf of the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case under Sections 498(A) and 323 of the Indian Penal Code. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that it is admitted in the complaint petition that the complainant left the house in 2004. The present case has been filed after three years in the year 2007. It is further submitted that cognizance has not been taken under Section 494 of the Indian Penal Code therefore, the excuse given by the complaint for the delay is not believable. Be that as it may, petitioner Anuj Mahto is directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Complaint Case No. 620 (c) of 2007 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the S.D.J.M., Barh, Patna subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Sanjay (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)