Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.27487 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sita Devi 2. Dharam Nath Sahni. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 14-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the mother and brother of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years of the marriage when the dead body was recovered in pieces. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the informant has retracted from the initial version. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners, if the petitioners Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.27487 of 2012 (3) dt.14-09-2012 2/2 surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Paru P.S. Case No. 207 of 2007 pending in the court of learned CJM, Muzaffarpur. 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: 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.