IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.21600 of 2010 BACHCHAN KUMAR SON OF SRI CHULHAI SAH, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE SIMRA, P.S. DUMRA, DISTRICT SITAMARHI – PETITIONER. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR—OPP. PARTY. ----------- 2/ 14-07-2010 Heard the parties. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code and section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. In the complaint petition vide Annexure-1, the petitioner has been specifically named as accused, being the husband of the complainant. There is allegation of demand of dowry and torture against the petitioner. From the material available on record it appears that at the intervention of the learned Sessions Judge a compromise was arrived at between the complainant and this petitioner. The complainant was taken to Delhi but subsequently petitioner appears to have violated the terms of the compromise and did not take care his wife properly at Delhi, as a result of which she returned to her parental house. It is also submitted that the petitioner is again prepared to enter into compromise and is prepared to keep the complainant as his legally wedded wife with all dignity, comfort, safety and honour. Be that as it may, in the facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is not persuaded to accede to the prayer made on behalf of the petitioner for grant of anticipatory bail. It is, accordingly , rejected. The petitioner must surrender in the court below in connection with Complaint Case No. C-1/452/08 within a period of four weeks from today and seek regular bail, if so advised, which shall be considered and disposed of on its own merit without being prejudiced by the present order. It is made clear that if the petitioner enters into compromise with his wife in the meantime before his surrender within a period of four weeks fixed by this Court and files such a compromise petition in the court below and if the court below is satisfied about the bonafide of compromise between the petitioner and the complainant, then in that event the prayer for bail may be disposed of in terms of said compromise. B.Tiwary/ ( Birendra Prasad Verma, J )