Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.194 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahendra Sah & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 12-04-2012 Petitioners being brothers and brother’s wife of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the sister of the informant within two years of the marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand and disposing of the dead body without informing the informant. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners were separate from the husband and the victim actually died due to the diarrhoea and information was given to the informant’s side. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.194 of 2012 (4) dt.12-04-2012 2 / 2 2 petitioners, is in custody, let the petitioners namely 1. Mahendra Sah 2. Suresh Sah @ Suresh Saw 3. Indradeo Sah 4. Manju Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Raghopur P.S. Case No. 62 of 2011. Shageer/- (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.