Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2682 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Praduman Singh, 2. Suman Singh .... .... 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 01-02-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being elder and younger brothers 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 after six years of the marriage. The accusation is general against the entire family including the petitioners but the thrust of accusation is against the husband. It appears from the impugned order that only husband has been chargesheeted and investigation has been kept pending so far as petitioners are concerned. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the husband is in custody. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2682 of 2012 (2) dt.01-02-2012 2 / 2 2 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, Saran at Chapra in connection with Chapra Town P.S. Case No. 96 /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.