Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38079 of 2011 (3) dt.10-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.38079 of 2011 ====================================================== Nain Devi @ Sunain Devi W/O Suresh Yadav @ Suresh Rai Resident Of Village- Semraha, P.O.- Belour, P.S.- Panapur, District- Saran At Chhapra. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AKHILESH CHANDRA ORAL ORDER 3 10-02-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner, apprehends her arrest in connection with Panapur P.S. Case No. 19/2011 for the offences under [STATUTE] and Section 3 and 4 of the D.P. Act, is one of the named accused in this case being mother-in-law of the deceased sister of the informant who died within a year of her marriage under unnatural circumstances. Submission is that due to some differences with the husband deceased herself caused her death and in spite of information given and when her family members could not arrive body was disposed off, no doubt, police was not informed but at least for such wrong husband of the deceased is in custody. Further, petitioner has no criminal antecedent. If, it is so, in the event of her arrest or surrender Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.38079 of 2011 (3) dt.10-02-2012 within a period of four weeks, let the above- named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of sum of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chapra, in connection with Panapur P.S. Case No. 19/2011, subject to condition under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and additional condition to attend the court regularly till disposal of the case, in the event of failure on two consecutive dates, without any reasonable explanation, the privilege granted shall be deemed to be cancelled. rajeev/- (Akhilesh Chandra, 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.