Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5861 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5861 of 2012 ====================================================== Bhagrasia Devi @ Lalita Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-02-2012 Petitioner being wife of the elder brother of the husband is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the victim after five years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no accusation of demand of dowry and the postmortem report reflects no external injury when viscera has been preserved. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioner namely Bhagrasia Devi @ Lalita Devi, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5861 of 2012 (2) dt.29-02-2012 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ara at Bhojpur in connection with Sandesh P.S. Case No. 64 of 2010. 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.