Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38600 of 2012 (2) dt.10-10-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38600 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Saroj Devi, 2. Kiran Devi alias Rekha Devi, 3. Suli Yadav, 4. Kedar Yadav,, 5. Suresh Yadav, 6. Sadan Yadav, 7. Krishna Yadav, .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being brothers, brother’s wife and paternal uncle of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within two years of the marriage. It is submitted that in the FIR, there is no accusation of demand of dowry when the informant has admitted that for some period the victim led a happy life when the informant found the dead body in the house. It is further submitted that the postmortem reflects no external injury much less resisting injury and viscera was preserved for chemical examination. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38600 of 2012 (2) dt.10-10-2012 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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 CJM, Sheikhpura in connection with Ariari P.S. Case No. 38 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.