Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17732 of 2012 (4) dt.08-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17732 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Yugal Rai, 2. Parwati Devi, 3. Sachindra Rai alias Suchindra Rai, 4. Ranjeet Rai alias Ranjeet Kumar Rai, .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 08-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case initially registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. It is submitted that chargesheet was submitted against the husband of the victim under [STATUTE] when the petitioners were not sent up for trial but differing with the same cognizance was taken. Considering the fact that accusation was found false during investigation, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17732 of 2012 (4) dt.08-08-2012 Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dalsinghsarai, Samastipur in connection with Vidyapatinagar P.S. Case No. 20 of 2011 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.