Judgment · High Court

The State of Bihar

Nilam kumari Wife of Sikandar Thakur, D/O Prabhu Thakur Resident of Village- Massa Tole Mirjapur, P.S.- Jale, District- Darbhanga, At present Resident of Village- Balha, P.S.- Bisfi, District- Madhubani ... ... Opposite Party/s

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER Mr. Shiva Shankar Sharma, Advocate Mr. Raj Ballabh Singh, A.P.P. 4 07-07-2023 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and opposite party No.2. The petitioner who is husband of opposite party No. 2 apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner offers and undertakes that he is ready to give maintenance amount of Rs. 2000/- per month, starting from this month, to opposite party No. 2. In view of the undertaking of learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is ready to give maintenance amount of Rs. 2000/- per month, in the event of arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, above-named petitioner be Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71453 of 2022(4) dt.07-07-2023 enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Darbhanga in Complaint Case No. 688 of 2018, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as well as on the following conditions:- (1) Opposite party No. 2 would file an affidavit before the court below and bring on record her savings bank account number for its communication to the petitioner. (2) Petitioner would deposit the aforesaid maintenance amount per month in the savings bank account of the opposite party No. 2. (3) In case, the petitioner fails to deposit the maintenance amount for two consecutive months, the court below would be at liberty to cancel the bail-bond. (4) The aforementioned payment will be subject to any order passed in matrimonial, maintenance or connected proceedings. The present order, in no way, will preclude the parties to resolve the issue otherwise. Navya/- U T (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J)