Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35894 of 2012 ====================================================== Usha Devi & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-09-2012 Petitioners being mother and brother’s wife of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing daughter of the informant after three years of marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation is not specific against the petitioners and informant has retracted from initial version. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Usha Devi 2. Gyanti Devi, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35894 of 2012 (2) dt.20-09-2012 2 / 2 2 bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Beur P.S. Case No. 148 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.