Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2930 of 2012 (2) dt.30-01-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2930 of 2012 ====================================================== Dilip Jha & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 30-01-2012 Petitioners being parents, brother and sister of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the victim for non-fulfilment of dowry demand within two years of the marriage. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is no specific accusation against the petitioners and the accusation is general against all of killing the victim by administering poison. It is further submitted that informant has retracted from initial version. Learned counsel for the petitioners undertakes that husband will surrender within a period of four weeks. On surrender of the husband, let the petitioners namely 1. Dilip Jha 2. Renu Devi 3. Saurabh Kumar Jha 4. Pappi Kumari, in the event of their 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. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2930 of 2012 (2) dt.30-01-2012 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur in connection with Patori P.S. Case No. 26 of 2011. 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.