Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17421 of 2012 ====================================================== Aliyar Ram & Ors .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-05-2012 Petitioners being parents and grand-mother of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the sister of the complainant, after four years of the marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation the accusation was found false and final form was submitted, but on protest, cognizance has been taken. Considering the fact that accusation was found false during investigation, let the petitioners namely 1. Aliyar Ram 2. Shirati Devi @ Sheorati Devi 3. Fulbasi Kuer, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17421 of 2012 (2) dt.10-05-2012 2 / 2 2 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 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kaimur at Bhabua in connection with Complaint Case No. 1165 of 2010, Trial No. 2120 of 2011. 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.