Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1439 of 2012 Geeta Devi Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 17.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of administering poison to the victim. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the marriage was performed seven years prior to the alleged occurrence and there is no accusation of demand of dowry, hence case under [STATUTE] is not made out and the husband is in custody. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of ACJM, Hilsa (Nalanda) in Ekangar Sarai P.S. Case no. 90 of 2011 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.