Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31748 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Dahadi Choudhary 2. Bikrama Choudhary. 3. Sheoji Choudhary. 4. Etwaria Devi. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the father, brothers and brother’s wife of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in Srinagar P.S. Case No. 24 of 2007 registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran. The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after six years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the accusation is not specific and the petitioners were residing in Punjab when the husband of the victim has been acquitted vide S. Tr. No. 100 of 2009. In the circumstances, let the learned court below Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31748 of 2012 (2) dt.06-09-2012 2/2 consider the regular bail of the petitioners if they surrender within a period of four weeks keeping in view the fact that the husband of the victim has been acquitted. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. Amrendra/- (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.