Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.52 of 2012 Sihanta Devi, wife of Girish Singh Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 10.01.2012 Petitioner being mother of the husband is languishing in custody since 16.11.2011 in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of demand of dowry and torture. It appears that the police submitted chargesheet in 2003 treating the petitioner absconder and now petitioner has surrendered. Though husband has been granted bail but his trial is going on. Considering the fact that petitioner is aged lady, let the petitioner above named be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Begusarai in connection with Begusarai Muffasil P.S. Case No. 31 of 2003. Let learned Magistrate commit the case of the petitioner to the Court of Sessions without any delay. Let learned Trial Court positively cancel the bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner defaults for two consecutive occasions. 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.