IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.13369 of 2010 MUKESH PANDEY Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ANR ----------- 02. 11.05.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under Section 498A of the I.P.C. Petitioner undertakes to keep the complainant as wife with full dignity and honour. It is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the precondition for resuming the conjugal life put forward by the complainant is that the petitioner should get partitioned from his family members which is, at present not possible for the petitioner. In view of the aforesaid submissions, let the petitioner namely Mukesh Pandey, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be enlarged on provisional bail for six months on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Complaint Case No. 2517(C) of 2009. Within four weeks from today, learned C.J.M., Bettiah, West Champaran will get the notices served upon the 2 complainant through her lawyer and fix a specific date for appearance of the complainant as well as of the petitioner. On any such date so fixed the petitioner will take the complainant to her matrimonial house. However the complainant will not put any condition for resuming the conjugal life. On and before expiry of six months, the provisional bail will be confirmed by the learned C.J.M. if the conjugal life is restored or if the complainant refuses to stay with the husband. Let a copy of this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioner. Shageer (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)