Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19924 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kari Miyan 2. Raziya Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 04-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Subsequently [STATUTE] was also added. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand by putting her on fire. It is alleged against the petitioners that they were also present when the victim was being put on fire. This Court is not inclined to interfere Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19924 of 2012 (2) dt.04-07-2012 2/2 only because the case was instituted in 2005, but considering the fact that others have been granted regular bail, I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Harsidhi P.S. Case No. 68 of 2005 pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate Sadar, Motihari. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) . .

Applicable IPC Section: 326

Statute Text:
Section 326 of the Indian Penal Code. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means. Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 335, voluntarily causes grievous hurt by means of any instrument for shooting, stabbing or cutting, or any instrument which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, or by means of fire or any heated substance, or by means of any poison or any corrosive substance, or by means of any explosive substance, or by means of any substance which it is deleterious to the human body to inhale, to swallow, or to receive into the blood, or by means of any animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.