Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9484 of 2012 ====================================================== Mahapati Devi & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-03-2012 Petitioners being mother, brother and brother’s wife of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . 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 petitioners that informant has subsequently retracted from initial version and filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. It is further submitted that father-in-law and husband have been granted bail by this Court vide Cr. Misc. No. 9502 of 2012. I see no reason for learned Court below not to give the same privilege to the petitioners, if the petitioners Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9484 of 2012 (2) dt.28-03-2012 2 / 2 2 surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Sangrampur P.S. Case No. 60 of 2011, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran at Motihari. With the observations above, the application stands disposed off. 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.