Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.8616 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Surendra Chaudhary 2. Rina Devi @ Rita Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== With Criminal Miscellaneous No.11966 of 2012 ====================================================== Tetari Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 21-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the elder brother, his wife and mother of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after one and half years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the husband has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 41814 of 2011. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.8616 of 2012 (2) dt.21-03-2012 2/2 I see no reason for the learned court below not to grant same privilege to the petitioners if petitioners surrender before the learned court below within a period of six months in connection with Samastipur (Muffasil) P.S. Case No. 398 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. DKS/ (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.