Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15133 of 2012 ====================================================== Bachi Devi & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 24-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner, informant and the State. Petitioners being mother and sister of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant, after five years of the marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that as per the own admission of the informant, he came to know about the occurrence dated 19.07.2011 on 10.08.2011 when he came to enquiry to the in-laws house on 15.08.2011 when the F.I.R. was lodged on 16.08.2011. It is submitted by learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15133 of 2012 (2) dt.24-04-2012 2 / 2 2 informant that victim was killed in connivance with all the family members of the husband and husband has still not surrendered. Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the petitioners will surrender within a period of six weeks, let the petitioners namely 1. Bachi Devi 2. Nibha Kumari, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within 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 S.D.J.M., Shohar at Sitamarhi in connection with Sheohar P.S. Case No. 127 of 2011. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted on surrender of the husband. 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.