Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35341 of 2012 (3) dt.07-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.35341 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Md. Kasim Ahmad 2. Md. Sahnawaj 3. Md. Nanhe @ Nanha 4. Sahnaj Khatoon .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 07-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents and brothers of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. It is alleged that the daughter of the informant was married with Md. Akbar 02.12.2010 and thereafter the daughter of the informant got disappeared. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the husband of the victim, the son of petitioner no. 1 also got disappeared for which Barari (Semapur) P.S. Case No. 87 of 2012 was registered making accusation under Sections 420, 120B, 364, 365 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.35341 of 2012 (3) dt.07-12-2012 and 368 of the IPC in which the informant of the present case has been made an accused and the husband is still traceless. The investigation of both the cases is pending. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail till the conclusion of the investigation in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Katihar in connection with Barari P.S. Case No. 88 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.