Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.702 of 2012 Shyam Balak Sah @ Shankar Sah & Ors. Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 13.01.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State Mr. M. Haque. Petitioners being married sister, brother-in-law and mother of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the marriage was performed in 2007 and for transfer of the landed property, the victim was tortured. Considering the fact that specific accusations are against the husband and husband’s father, let the petitioners namely 1. Shyam Balak Sah @ Shankar Sah 2. Nisha Devi 3. Sweety Devi @ Malangwa Wali, 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in connection with Sonebarsa P.S. Case No. 18 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.