Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7304 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Tara Devi, 2. Pinki Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the mother and brother’s wife of the husband are apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the victim after four years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the victim died due to accidental fire injury and the victim was given the medical assistance and the postmortem was also conducted. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the petitioner, 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 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7304 of 2012 (2) dt.13-03-2012 2 / 2 2 sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Simari P.S. Case No. 135/2011 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.