IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.30857 of 2008 RITU MANDAL S/O LATE LAXMAN MANDAL, RESIDENT OF RAGHUNATHPUR, P.S. BARSOI, DISTRICT-KATIHAR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 16.10.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner, who is husband, apprehends arrest in a Police case under Sections 498A of the Penal Code. The allegations are that he assaulted the complainant whenever she complained of ill treatment more particularly after consuming liquor. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in fact he was never married to the complainant and was 13 years of age at the time of the alleged marriage and 15 years on the date that complaint was filed and maximum of 16 years as of date while the complainant is approximately 30 years of age. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioner, abovenamed surrender in the court below within a period of six weeks from today, when he shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/-(Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of S.D.J.M., Katihar in C.A. 2192 of 2007. On the day that the petitioner files his bail bonds and shall be physically present in Court, if the court below is satisfied on a mere visual presentation of the petitioner that he is a minor, he shall be - 2 - enlarged on anticipatory bail. If the conclusion of the Magistrate is otherwise, the present order shall not be given effect to when the petitioner shall be taken into custody there and then. Counsel for the petitioner has no objection to the same. AKS/ (Navin Sinha, J.)