Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4682 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sharda Devi @ Veena Devi, W/O Sri Arun Kumar Verma, resident of Mohalla- Khatri Tola, P.S.- Jehanabad, District- Jehanabad. 2. Chhotki Kumari @ Priti Kumari, D/O Sri Arun Verma, resident of Mohalla- Khatri Tola, P.S.- Jehanabad, District- Jehanabad. .... .... Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AMARESH KUMAR LAL ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AMARESH KUMAR LAL) 2 01-02-2012 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the State. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Jehanabad P.S. Case No.231/2011 registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim for non- fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the petitioners are the mother- in-law and sister-in-law of the deceased. It has been further submitted that the similarly situated co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail vide order dated 18.01.2012 passed in Cr. Misc. No.1699/2012 by a Bench of this Court and the husband of the deceased has Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4682 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 also been granted regular bail. The learned counsel for the State could not controvert the contention of the learned counsel for the petitioners while opposing their prayer. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioners above-named be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of four weeks from today in connection with Jehanabad P.S. Case No.231/2011 on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. V.K. Pandey/- (Amaresh Kumar Lal, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 304B

Statute Text:
Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code. Dowry death. Where the death of a woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or occurs otherwise than under normal circumstances within seven years of her marriage and it is shown that soon before her death she was subjected to cruelty or harassment by her husband or any relative of her husband for, or in connection with, any demand for dowry, such death shall be called "dowry death", and such husband or relative shall be deemed to have caused her death. Whoever commits dowry death shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than seven years but which may extend to imprisonment for life.