Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11026 of 2012 (2) dt.04-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11026 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ramchandra Lal 2. Binod Kumar Srivastava & 3. Priya Devi .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being father, brother and brother’s wife of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after five years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demands. It is submitted that during investigation accusation was found false and subsequently on protest cognizance has been taken. Considering the aforesaid fact that accusation was found false during investigation, let the above named three petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11026 of 2012 (2) dt.04-04-2012 (ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Ara(Bhojpur) in Protest-cum-Complaint Case No.380(C) of 2010 arising out of Tr.No.2590 of 2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.