Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19924 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kari Miyan 2. Raziya Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 04-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Subsequently [STATUTE] was also added. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand by putting her on fire. It is alleged against the petitioners that they were also present when the victim was being put on fire. This Court is not inclined to interfere Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19924 of 2012 (2) dt.04-07-2012 2/2 only because the case was instituted in 2005, but considering the fact that others have been granted regular bail, I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Harsidhi P.S. Case No. 68 of 2005 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate Sadar, Motihari. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. 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.