Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.42723 of 2011 (4) dt.07-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42723 of 2011 ====================================================== Kapil Das & Anr. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 04/ 07.02.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners being parents-in-law of the deceased are languishing in jail custody since 15.4.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The contention of learned counsel for the petitioners is that deceased died in rail accident for which Bakhtiyarpur S.D.E Case no. 161/2010 was registered and post mortem report also corroborates the above stated fact. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioners, Kapil Das and Munni Devi, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh District Patna in Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case no. 181/2010. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.