Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32702 of 2012 (3) dt.29-11-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.32702 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ram Ekbal Singh 2. Geeta Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 29-11-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners, the State and the informant. The petitioners being the parents of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within two months of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned senior counsel for the petitioners that the victim committed suicide since she was carrying the pregnancy of four months on the date of the occurrence, which is two months after the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that the father-in-law, who took the victim from Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.32702 of 2012 (3) dt.29-11-2012 her parents’ house when the complicity of the entire in-laws family cannot be ruled out, but it is not disputed by learned counsel for the informant that the victim was carrying pregnancy of four months of alleged date of the occurrence, which is slightly two months of the marriage. Considering the thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim and the undertaking of the counsel for the petitioners that the husband will surrender within a period of six weeks , let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned CJM, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Vaishali (Belsar O.P.) P.S. Case No. 124 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bonds of the petitioners shall be accepted on surrender of the husband. 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.