Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21995 of 2012 (3) dt.07-08-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.21995 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Smt. Parba Devi, 2. Naresh Yadav, 3. Mukesh Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 07-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within two years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is the specific case of the informant that the victim was assaulted by the husband when the informant found the victim in PMCH in unconscious condition but subsequently she died on 1.7.2011. It is submitted that the informant received information about the occurrence on 28.6.2011 when the FIR was lodged on 2.7.2011. It is further submitted that specific accusation of assault is against the husband of the victim and postmortem reflects six injuries and the FIR reflects that in the last portion suspicion has Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.21995 of 2012 (3) dt.07-08-2012 been raised against these petitioners by inserting their names. It is also submitted that the husband is in custody. Considering the fact that specific accusation is against the husband who, as per learned counsel for the petitioners, is in custody, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in connection with Hawai Adda P.S. Case No. 95 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anil/- (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.