Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.17801 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Hiramuni Devi 2. Gita Devi 3. Guddu Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 14-05-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the mother, brother and brother’s wife of the husband of the deceased 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 few months of the marriage and disposing of the dead body. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim died due to the illness and the informant has retracted from his initial version. It appears that other accused Nirmal Singh has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 5406 of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.17801 of 2012 (2) dt.14-05-2012 2/2 2012, I see no reason for the learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioners if the petitioner surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Ara (M) (Dhobaha O.P.) P.S. Case No. 199 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur at Ara. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. 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.