Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.19605 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Bir Bahadur Sah 2. Geeta Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 04/ 31-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the wife of the nephew of the informant and throwing the dead body. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the present case has been lodged by the informant to save his skin as the victim was the daughter of the petitioners when the petitioners filed a complaint case on 09.12.2011 making accusation under [STATUTE] and 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act since the petitioners have no information Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.19605 of 2012 (4) dt.31-08-2012 2/2 about the death of the daughter. Moreover, the accusation has been levelled by the informant that the victim was poisoned when the injuries have been found during post-mortem. Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sikrahana at Motihari in connection with Ghorasahan P.S. Case No. 237 of 2011, 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.