IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.40214 of 2009 Vikash Kumar Keshari @ Vikash Prasad Keshari,, S/o Ramesh Prasad Keshri, R/o Old G.T. Road, Near Dharamshala Chowk, Thana Nagar, P.S. Aurangabad, Distt. Aurangabad. -------- Petitioner Versus State of Bihar ------- Opp. Party ----------- 2 26.11.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The petitioner, a husband, is facing prosecution for an offence under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. Mr. Arbind Kumar Jha, learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner has been unnecessarily framed in this case on a wholly false allegation of demand of dowry. Mr. Jha, however, could not explain about the strained relationship in which the petitioner himself had lodged the first criminal case against the wife and her father. One thing, therefore, is clear that the husband, petitioner, has not been maintaining his wife as a result of which there has been all these acrimonies. Under such circumstances, Mr. Jha was directed to take instruction from the petitioner and his family members as with 2 regard to the solution for the maintenance of the complainant/informant/wife and today, Mr. Jha in presence of the father of the petitioner in this Court would submit that the petitioner is prepared to pay a sum of Rs. 5,000/- per month from the date of filing of the complaint petition till the matter is amicably resolved. That being so, if the petitioner pays a sum of Rs. 25,000/- by a bank draft towards payable under the name of Rakhi Kumari Keshri and also an undertaking in the court below that he will keep on paying Rs. 5,000/- per month till finalization of the criminal case/any amicable solution arrived between the parties, the petitioner, namely, Vikash Kumar Keshari @ Vikash Prasad Keshari 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ara, Bhojpur in connection with Ara Town P.S. Case No. 127 of 2009, subject to the condition that one of the bailors would be a close family relative of the petitioner. 3 The amount as fixed with the consent of the petitioner, however, will be subject to variation under the order of this Court if such an application is filed by the wife/complainant/informant. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)