IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.7984 of 2008 ARVIND KUMAR SINGH @ ARVIND KUMAR Versus STATE OF BIHAR --- For the petitioner: Mr. Rajesh Mohan, Advocatge For the informant : Mr. Satya Prakash Sinha, Advocate For the State : Mr. S.S.Shabbar Hussan,A.P.P. --- 6. 3.12.2008 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the informant and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner seeks anticipatory bail in connection with a case registered under Sections 498- A of the Indian Penal Code and 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The allegation against the petitioner is that after the marriage with the informant on 17.7.2005, he and his family members started demanding a Maruti Car and cash of Ruppes five lacs but on the said demand not being fulfilled, the informant was assaulted on 15.2.2007 and ousted from her matrimonial home. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that as a matter of fact, it is the informant and her family members who immediately after the marriage had started misbehaving and threatening the petitioner and his family members and the informant was not at all ready to live with the petitioner and his family members. It is submitted that the petitioner on account of ill behaviour of the informant and her family members had filed an informatory petition on 23.9.2005 in the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur against the informant, her parents and brother. Learned counsel for the informant, on the other hand, submits that the petitioner had been threatening the informant all 2 through and treated her with cruelty. On a consideration of the entire facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that the petitioner ( Arvind Kumar Singh alias Arvind Kumar) in the event of his arrest/surrender in the Court below within a period of four weeks from today shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/ with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Bidupur P.S. Case No.80/2007, subject to the other conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) Cr.P.C. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta,J.)