IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.27839 of 2009 MISTER LAL @ MANTU Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 24.11.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, for the State and also counsel for the complainant. The petitioner, who is the husband, apprehends arrest in a Complaint case under Section 498 A, 420 and 120B of the Penal Code. The petitioner is stated to have filed a case for divorce also. Learned counsel for the petitioner and the complainant are not at issue that the parties have decided to part ways amicably by conversion of the pending divorce proceeding to one of by mutual consent under Section 13(b) of the Hindu Marriage Act. They have further agreed that the petitioner shall deposit a sum of Rs. 17, 25,000/- by demand draft before the Family Court, and which counsel for the petitioner shall keep alive till the disposal of the proceeding so that upon conclusion it may be handed over by the Family Court to the complainant. In that view of the matter, the court below is directed to deal appropriately with the present prosecution so as to avoid harassment to the parties. In view of the aforesaid, let the petitioner abovenamed surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks from today, when he shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 20,000/-(Rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri S.K. 2 Mishra, Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Patna, in Complaint case No. 1699 ( C ) of 2007. AKS/ (Navin Sinha, J.)