Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8054 of 2012 ====================================================== Prakash Sao @ Prakash Prasad & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-03-2012 Petitioners being elder brothers of the husband and their wives are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant and her two children, after five years of marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is general accusation against all the in- laws family including the petitioners when petitioners used to reside in Delhi and were separate from the husband. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioners namely 1. Prakash Sao @ Prakash Prasad 2. Kanhiya Sao 3. Fulwa Devi 4. Chanpa Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8054 of 2012 (2) dt.20-03-2012 2 / 2 2 anticipatory bail 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, Jehanabad in connection with Makhdumpur P.S. Case No. 389 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.