IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.2006 of 2010 HARENDRA MAHTO son of Dasrath Mahto, resident of village- New Mal Bagicha, P.S. Mehandiganj, District- Patna…. Petitioner. Versus 1. STATE OF BIHAR 2. Smt. Rita Devi w/o Harendra Mahto, D/o Sri Bhuletan Mahto, resident of Bari Pahari, P.S. New Bypass, District-Patna. … Opposite parties. ----------- 2. 23.02.2010 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for State. The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner for an offence under Section 498 A is pressed on the ground that the petitioner, husband is all alone and ready to keep his wife with all dignity. Counsel for the petitioner also submits that previously when the reconciliation proceeding was taken up by the Sessions Judge, the same could not become successful on account of the hardened attitude of his wife inasmuch as, she after staying for a week had run away from the place of the petitioner. In the opinion of this court, the nature of allegation and the direct complicity of the petitioner with a finding of Sessions Judge that it was the petitioner who was adamant not to restore the relationship with the wife would go to show that allegations of mental and physical 2 torture made in the complaint petition have some semblance of truth. That apart, when the petitioner is also not prepared to support financially his wife, in the period she would live separately atleast till the conclusion of the case, this Court would find it difficult to direct for release of the petitioner on anticipatory bail. That being so, this application is dismissed but it is made clear that anything said in this order will not prejudice the petitioner, in case he surrenders and files an application for regular bail. kanchan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)