Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2052 of 2012 1. Babuni Yadav, 2. Bindeshwari Devi Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 23.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being parents of the husband are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim for non fulfillment of dowry demands when the marriage was performed in 2006. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation the witnesses have supported that the victim died due to illness. It is further submitted that the informant has retracted from the original version and has filed a petition to that effect before the learned court below. Considering the retracted version of the informant which clouds the bonafides of the accusation, let the above named petitioners 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M Aurangabad in Aurangabad (Mufassil) P.S. Case no. 239 of 2011 subject to 2 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.