Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24123 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Mukesh Yadav 2. Rakesh Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the husband and brother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after five years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation is general in nature and the informant has subsequently retracted from his initial version and others have been grated anticipatory bail. This Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to Mukesh Yadav being the husband of the deceased. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioner Mukesh Yadav if he surrenders within a period of six weeks keeping in view the retracted version of the informant Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24123 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 2/2 and the fact that other accused have been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 232 of 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner Rakesh Yadav be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Kurtha P.S. Case No. 41 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.