Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.1261 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dukhu Yadav 2. Raju Yadav. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 27-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the uncles of the husband are languishing in custody since 22.09.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand and killing within seven years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that actually the husband performed love marriage and the thrust of accusation is against the husband who is in custody. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on bail, on furnishing the bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.1261 of 2012 (2) dt.27-01-2012 2 / 2 2 bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur In connection with Pirpainty P.S. Case No. 114 of 2011. Amrendra/- (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.