IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.14870 of 2011 SURAJ MAHTO Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 11.05.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the husband is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Sections 498a and 323 of the Indian Penal Code and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of demand of dowry and torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that prior to the lodging of the present case, a restitution case was filed by the petitioner in which the informant appeared and contested the restitution case which has now converted into a case under Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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, 2 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jhanjharpur District Madhubani in connection with Lakhnour P.S. Case No. 56/2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. The order of this Court will not preclude the informant to resume the conjugal life if she so desires then she may file an application before the learned court below when the petitioner undertakes to the take the informant to her matrimonial house to keep her as wife with full dignity and honour. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)