IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12448 of 2011 VIKAS KUMAR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 28.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Sections 323 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code. The accusation has been levelled by the wife who is the informant that she was being assaulted by the husband and the step mother-in-law as she wanted to go to her maternal aunt’s house when she was forbade when she tried to put her on fire when the husband tried to save her when ultimately, she lit fire by lighter after opening the gas cylinder. It is submitted that subsequently, the informant died in course of the treatment in P.M.C.H. It is submitted that the victim being treated from 03.03.2011 to 13.03.2011 at Budha Burnt hospital and in P.M.C.H when she ultimately died. Considering the own admission of the victim 2 that this petitioner was trying to save the victim when she was trying to put herself on fire, the medical assistance was given to the victim immediately after the occurrence, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Mahua P.S. Case No. 87/2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)