Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5876 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Badamia Devi W/O Parmeshwari Yadav Resident Of Village- Padampur, P.S- Sonbarsa Raj, Distt- Saharsa. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Shiva Shankar Sharma, Mr. Arun Kumar Sinha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Chandra Mohan Jha, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-03-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The petitioner being the mother of the husband is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim. The informant himself admitted that marriage was performed seven years prior to the occurrence. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5876 of 2012 (2) dt.02-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the above named petitioner 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saharsa in connection with Sonbarsa Raj Case No. 148 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Mkr./- (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.