Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.47704 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Sita Devi 2. Saburi Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 18-12-2012 Petitioners being mother and brother of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after one year of marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation is not specific against the petitioners when the husband and husband’s father have been acquitted vide Sessions Trial No. 122 of 2012. Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.47704 of 2012 (2) dt.18-12-2012 2 / 2 2 amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Raxaul at Motihari in connection with Raxaul P.S. Case No. 72 of 2011. Learned Trial Court will be at liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioners, if they defaults for three consecutive occasions. 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.