Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24912 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Vidya Sagar Keshri @ Bidya Sagar Kesari 2. Parvati Devi @ Parvati Debi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 03-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand after two and half years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim got accidental burnt injury when she was given medical assistance and after 40 days of the occurrence the case was lodged and at earlier point of time the informatory petition was filed by petitioner no. 1. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24912 of 2012 (3) dt.03-08-2012 2/2 Considering the delayed lodging of the FIR, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rohtas at Sasaram in connection with Dawath P.S. Case No. 07 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.