Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18206 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kapildeo Singh 2. Ramsumari Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 16-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, the State and the informant. The bail application with regard to petitioner no. 1 has already been withdrawn. The petitioner no. 2 being the mother of the husband of the deceased is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after six years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. Considering the that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the deceased, who as per learned counsel for the petitioner is in custody, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18206 of 2012 (3) dt.16-05-2012 2/2 named petitioner no. 2 be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with Kashichak (Shahpur) P.S. Case No. 69 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.