Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.48729 of 2012 (2) dt.10-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.48729 of 2012 ====================================================== 1 Nand Kishore Singh son of late Shatrughan Singh. 2 Kaushal Kishore Singh, Son of Late Shatrughan Singh. 3 Tej Bihari Singh @ Tej Bahadur Singh, son of late Shatrughan Singh, all are resident of village- Enai ( Barahampur) , P.S- Bhagwan Bazar, District- Saran ( Chapra) .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s Mr. Arun Kumar Rai For the State : Mr. C. Jawahar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 10-12-2012 Heard Mr. Arun Kumar Rai, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. C. Jawahar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioners seek grant of regular bail in connection with Bhagwan Bazar P.S.case No. 119 of 2002 registered under [STATUTE] . It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioners that petitioner no. 1 is the husband of the deceased whereas petitioner nos. 2 and 3 are brother-in laws (Dewar) of the deceased, who died after seven years of her marriage. The allegation against petitioners in the F.I.R is that there was demand of dowry and torture. However from Annexures 2 and 3 of the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.48729 of 2012 (2) dt.10-12-2012 application it appears that the police after completing the investigation submitted charge sheet under Section 306/201/34 of the Indian Penal code against these petitioners and his father. Accordingly cognizance has been taken against them by the learned Judicial Magistrate. In the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioners, namely, Nand Kishore Singh, Kaushal Kishore Singh and Tej Bihari Singh @ Tej Bahadur Singh be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- ( ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Shri Niraj Kishoe, 1st Class Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in connection with Bhagwan Bazar P.S.Case No. 119 of 2002, subject to the conditions that the petitioners shall co-operate in course of trial and in any default on their part will lead to cancellation of their bonds. Namita/- (Chakradhari Sharan 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.