Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22306 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Savitri Devi 2. Rajpati Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 10-09-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the mother and sister of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant within one year of the marriage. It is alleged that on the alleged date of the occurrence sister of informant with her husband along with one Kalendra Ram started from the house of informant, but subsequently the dead body of the sister of the informant was recovered when it was alleged that the husband and alleged Kalendra Ram killed the sister of the informant. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22306 of 2012 (4) dt.10-09-2012 2/2 Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband of the victim, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their 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 CJM, Aurangabad in connection with Nabinagar P.S. Case No. 12 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. DKS/ (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.