Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21342 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Harilal Chauhan 2. Bishwakarma Chauhan @ Vishwakarama Chauhan .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03/ 10-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the father and brother of the husband of the victim apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation is omnibus and general and informant has subsequently retracted from his initial version when the husband of the victim has already surrendered. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21342 of 2012 (3) dt.10-09-2012 2/2 event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve 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 learned CJM, Gopalganj in connection with Mirganj P.S. Case No. 51 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.