Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42412 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Munri Devi 2. Chintu Kumar 2 Chintu Ray .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-12-2012 Petitioners being mother and brother of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the sister of the informant within few month of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners are separate from the husband of the victim. Considering the fact that father of the husband of the victim Vimal Rai has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 33342 of 2012, this Court sees no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners, if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 92 of 2012, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42412 of 2012 (2) dt.11-12-2012 2 / 2 2 pending in the Court of learned A.C.J.M., Barh, Patna. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. Shageer/- (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.