Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25440 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.25440 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Raghubir Giri @ Photo Giri 2. Kusiya Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-07-2012 Petitioners being 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 after five years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that husband has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 44045 of 2011. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners, if the petitioners surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Dariyapur P.S. Case No. 138 of 2011, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25440 of 2012 (2) dt.25-07-2012 Let the order of this Court be transmitted through FAX to the learned Court below at the cost of the petitioners. 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.