Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6621 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sudhir Kumar Rai 2. Meenta Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 25-04-2012 The application with regard to petitioner no.1 has already been withdrawn. Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner no.2 being the mother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. Considering the facts that the thrust of accusation is against the husband, the husband of this petitioner has been grated regular bail and the petitioner is lady, let the above named petitioner no.2 be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6621 of 2012 (4) dt.25-04-2012 2/2 (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur in connection with Danapur P.S. Case No. 87 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.