Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37585 of 2012 ====================================================== Jhalia Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 03-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending arrest in Runnisaidpur P.S. Case No. 320 of 2011 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi. The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after four years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the FIR has been lodged after 25 days of the alleged occurrence. It appears that other accused Ram Babu Sahani has been granted regular bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 20338 of 2012. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioner if he surrenders within a period Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37585 of 2012 (2) dt.03-10-2012 2/2 of six weeks. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. 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.