IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.22832 of 2009 MOHAMMAD ALI, son of Ramzan Ali, resident of village-Barkagaon Basatpur, Nayatola, Police Station-Karja, District-Muzaffarpur. …….Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar …….Opposite Party ----------- 02. 03.09.2009 The petitioner is the husband and apprehends arrest in relation to Complaint Case No. C-123 of 2007 instituted under Section 498(A) of the Indian Penal Code and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the complainant’s daughter and the petitioner were married in 1988. Thereafter the Complainant’s daughter used to be frequently tortured for dowry and ultimately thrown out from the house. On behalf of the petitioner who is the unfortunate husband, it is submitted that right from the time of marriage the girl was not ready to stay with him in his house. There was a Panchayati in this regards and ultimately he agreed to move to his Sasural and stay there with his wife. Even there he was insulted and ultimately he turned to his house with his wife in the year 2005 but soon thereafter the informant and others came, beaten up the petitioner and took away the girl and since then the wife has not returned. He has already filed a complaint case being Complaint Case No. 1757 of 2005 about two years prior to - 2 - the present case in which cognizance has been taken and it is awaiting trial. It is on coming to know of this case and as a defence the present case has been lodged after two years i.e. in 2007. Be that as it may, let the petitioner namely Mohammad Ali, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today, be released on Anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.D.J.M., West Muzaffarpur in connection with Complaint Case No. C-123 of 2007 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr. P.C. Shageer (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J)