Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.4084 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kailash Singh 2. Bikash Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 12-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the father and brother of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within two months of the marriage. The dead body has been recovered from the bamboo clumps. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that accusation of demand of motorcycle was against the mother of the husband and husband himself. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners in connection with Chautham P.S. Case No. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.4084 of 2012 (3) dt.12-04-2012 2/2 74 of 2009 pending in the court Sri S.D. Bharti, learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Khagaria. Accordingly, this application is dismissed. 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.