Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9032 of 2012 (3) dt.29-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9032 of 2012 ====================================================== Kisha Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 29-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being mother of the husband is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after six years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that the victim caught accidental fire when she was taken to Apolo Hospital on 01.09.2010 and throughout the treatment the informant was present but the FIR was lodged by the victim on 09.09.2010. It is further submitted that when there is specific accusation of demand of motorcycle, deliberately the husband has not been made an accused. When the petitioner was ill she was provided appropriate treatment at the behest of the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9032 of 2012 (3) dt.29-03-2012 petitioner, 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Darauda P.S. Case No. 173 of 2010, 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.