Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.26523 of 2012 ====================================================== Rajendra Sahni @ Kerai Sahni & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents, sister- in-law (Bhabhi) 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 three years of marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that bonafide of the fact that from the petitioners’ side informant was informed about death of his daughter on the alleged date of occurrence and post mortem was done then dead body was cremated. Post mortem reflects no internal or external injury on the deceased. Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband of the victim who as per learned counsel Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.26523 of 2012 (2) dt.30-07-2012 2 / 2 2 for the petitioners is in custody since 25.11.2011 i.e. from the next day of occurrence, let the petitioners Rajendra Sahni @ Kerai Sahni, Sudama Devi, Neeta Devi and Vinod Sahni be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Mohiuddin Nagar P.S. Case No. 211 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Samastipur, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.