Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.11887 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Lalan Prasad, 2. Chutun Prasad, 3. Naresh Prasad, 4. Baby Devi, 5. Khushbu Kumari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being father, brothers and brothers’ wife and niece of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after about three years of the marriage. It is submitted that the occurrence took place on 7.10.2011 for which complaint was filed on 12.10.2011 which came to be registered as police case on 16.11.2011 and the petitioners are separate from the husband. It is further submitted that the victim was having some pregnancy complications for which she was given medical assistance prior to her death. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.11887 of 2012 (2) dt.10-04-2012 2 / 2 2 the husband, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 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 the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran at Motihari in connection with Pipra P.S. Case No. 285 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) 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.