Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14938 of 2012 ====================================================== Akshya Kumar Choudhary & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 04-05-2012 Petitioners being brothers and brothers’ wives of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the sister of the informant, after three years of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioners namely 1. Akshya Kumar Choudhary @ Achchhe Kumar Chaudhoary 2. Vijay Kumar Choudhary @ Vijay Choudhary 3. Gyanta Devi @ Gyanti Devi @ Giyanta Devi 4. Pushpa Devi, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14938 of 2012 (3) dt.04-05-2012 2 / 2 2 the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Buxar in connection with Simari P.S. Case No. 186 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.