IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.43678 of 2010 CHANDAN MAHTO S/O RAJ KISHORE MAHTO, VILLAGE- TURKI CHAINPUR, P.S. KURHANI, O.P. TURKI, DISTRICT- MUZAFFARPUR. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR . ----------- 2. 26/03/2011 Case is under sections 498A of the Indian Penal Code and section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Petitioner is husband of the complainant. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is ready to keep the complainant with all due dignity and care with him and also to give an undertaking that no demand of dowry or for any article shall be made from the complainant or her family members in future and she will not be tortured mentally or physically in any way on this count. Since petitioner is the husband, this Court is not inclined to allow anticipatory bail of the petitioner. This application is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the petitioner to surrender in the court below within four weeks from today and file an application for regular bail along with a formal petition supported by affidavit that 2 he is ready to keep the complainant with all due dignity and care with him and shall not torture her in any way in respect of demand of dowry or for any article from her or her family members. If such an application is filed by the petitioner with bail application, the court below will satisfy itself with regard to genuineness of the offer of the petitioner and shall allow provisional bail to him, and shall issue notice to the complainant and, after hearing the parties, shall pass final orders on the application of the petitioner. Pradeep/ ( J. N. Singh,J.)