Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12244 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ajay Narayan Tiwary 2. Pramod tiwary @ Pramod Tiwary. 3. Pawan Tiwari. 4. Guput Tiwari. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 09-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner no.1 being the husband and petitioner no.2 to 4 being brothers of the husband of the deceased are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after four years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. Considering nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to petitioner no.1, being the husband of the deceased. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of petitioner no.1 is rejected. Considering the fact that other family members have Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12244 of 2012 (2) dt.09-04-2012 2/2 been granted anticipatory bail, let the above named petitioner no. 2 to 4 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Dumraon P.S. Case No. 254 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.