IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14061 of 2011 ====================================================== Siddhartha Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 5 23-11-2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Sections 498A, 406 and 323/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The petitioner is present. Though, the petitioner is ready for resumption of the conjugal life but the opposite party no.2 at present is not ready for the same. The counsel for the opposite party no.2 offers for mutual divorce which is at present not acceptable to the petitioner. Out of matrimonial knot, there is a female child also who is residing with the opposite party no.2. The petitioner is ready to pay Rs. 2,000/- per month to the opposite party no.2 from January, 2012 by depositing the same in the bank account of the opposite party no.2 by second week of every month. The aforesaid offer is acceptable to opposite party no.2 and the counsel for opposite party no.2 undertakes to supply bank account number to the petitioner within a period of three weeks by filing the same on affidavit before the learned court below. The aforesaid payment will be subject to any order being passed in matrimonial or maintenance proceedings. Considering the stand of the parties, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Complaint Case No. CI- 3059/2009 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. This order will not preclude the parties to arrive at any amicable settlement. Three consecutive defaults in making payment by the petitioner will give liberty to the opposite party no.2 to file an application for cancellation of the bail of the petitioner. Amrendra Kumar/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)