Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.29752 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Rakesh Thakur 2. Munni Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 17-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the husband and mother of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in Sahar P.S. Case No. 39 of 2009 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after two years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It appears that other accused have been put on trial. In view of this Court, it is fit case for consideration of regular bail. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.29752 of 2012 (2) dt.17-08-2012 2/2 accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. 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.