Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.33567 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mahendra Paswan 2. Pramod Kumar Paswan 2 Pramod Paswan 3. Shakuntala Devi 4. Sanoj Paswan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-09-2012 Petitioners being parents and brother of the husband and the husband himself are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within two years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that subsequently the informant has retracted from initial version and has filed a petition to the effect that victim died due to snack biting. Considering the fact that petitioner No. 4 namely Sanoj Paswan is the husband of the victim, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner No. 4. Hence Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.33567 of 2012 (2) dt.05-09-2012 2 / 2 2 his application stands rejected. Considering the retracted version of the informant and the thrust of accusation against the husband, let the petitioner Nos. 1, 2, 3 namely 1. Mahendra Paswan 2. Pramod Kumar Paswan @ Pramod Paswan 3. Shakuntala 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 bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Lalganj P.S. Case No. 72 of 2012. 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.