Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7667 of 2012 ====================================================== Sri Kant Upadhyay & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 16-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner Mr. Gopal Govind Mishra and learned counsel for the State Mr. Uma Shankar Prasad Singh. Petitioners being parents and brother of the husband are apprehending their 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, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that informant has subsequently retracted from initial version. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7667 of 2012 (2) dt.16-03-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners will surrender within a period of four weeks, let the petitioners namely 1. Sri Kant Upadhyay 2. Sabita Devi 3. Rajan Upadhya, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara in connection with Shahpur P.S. Case No. 183 of 2011. 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.