Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21026 of 2012 ====================================================== Siddhnath Bhatt .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.19207 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Gajadhar Bhatt 2. Manrakhan Devi @ Manrakhani Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 13-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the husband and parents of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the daughter of the informant was married with Siddnath Bhatt (petitioner) in the year 2011 since the first wife of the petitioner died earlier. Within few months of the marriage, the victim was killed. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim was slightly mentally abraised when the family of the victim has denied the accusation of demand of dowry. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21026 of 2012 (3) dt.13-07-2012 2/2 It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that much prior to the lodging of the Sanha by the husband of the deceased the informatory petition was filed by the informant alleging that he is not being allowed to meet his daughter. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to Siddnath Bhatt. Accordingly, the same is rejected. Considering the fact that there is no specific accusation against the parents of the husband of the deceased, let the above named petitioners except Siddnath Bhatt 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/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara in connection with Charpokhari P.S. Case No. 136 of 2011, 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.