IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.29639 of 2008 MD.SHITAB @ SAHEB ANSARI Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 7.8.2008 Heard. Petitioner was married, as per allegation, 40 years back to the lady complainant and merely two years back, as per allegation, he started ill-treating her so much so that the lady had left the house of the petitioner. Petitioner’s contention is that he was married over 50 years back and begot a daughter who was married to a person at Sheohar and just thereafter got employment in Magadh University and he started living at Gaya. The lady being faced with a situation of melancholy abandoned the house of the petitioner and started to live with her daughter. Now the petitioner has retired and the lady has come up with a complaint petition making allegation under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. The contention is that after getting employed in the University, petitioner told the lady complainant to come and join him at Gaya but she refused, as a result, the petitioner divorced the lady and married another lady. Now the petitioner has retired and got his retiral benefits. The main attempt of the lady appears to get share in the retiral benefits. Be that as it may, it is not disputed that the lady was married 40 years back to the petitioner and it is a case of 498A of the Indian Penal Code, considering which let petitioner named above be released - 2 - on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri Rakesh Kumar, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Sheohar at Sitamarhi, in connection with Complaint Case no.C1/187/2006, Tr. No.730 of 2008. sudip ( Dharnidhar Jha, J )