Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3940 of 2012 ====================================================== Md. Iliyas & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Digvijay Kumar Ojha For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Sanjay Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, informant and the State. Petitioners being father and brothers of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the victim after five years of the marriage. It appears that husband has not been made accused and other family members have been granted bail in the matter as gets reflected from Annexure-3. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Md. Iliyas 2. Sarwar Alam @ Golden 3. Firoj Alam, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3940 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Buxar in connection with Buxar(T) P.S. Case No. 300 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.