Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27774 of 2012 (3) dt.13-09-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27774 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ramdhani Ram, 2. Gori Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 13-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being parents of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of the marriage for non fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the victim caught cold when she was taken to Daudnagar and from there referred to Aurangabad but on way she died. It is further submitted that the informant was informed and all the belongings of the deceased were returned to the informant. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27774 of 2012 (3) dt.13-09-2012 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 SDJM, Daudnagar in connection with Daudnagar P.S. Case No. 15 of 2012 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.