Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9790 of 2012 (2) dt.07-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9790 of 2012 ====================================================== Ramkalia Devi @ Lamkari Devi @ Ramkari Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 07.03.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner being mother-in-law of the deceased is in jail custody since 15.10.2011 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is pointed out on behalf of the petitioner that husband of the deceased has already been remanded in the present case and the petitioner without having any specific allegation is in jail custody since long. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioner, Ramkalia Devi @ Lamkari Devi @ Ramkari Devi, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in Noorsarai P.S. Case no. 78/2011. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.