Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.41701 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Premchandra Sah S/O Late Dhora Sah Resident Of Village- Bhikha Bandh, P.S.- Daraunda, District- Siwan. 2. Chinta Devi W/O Premchandra Sah Resident Of Village- Bhikha Bandh, P.S- Daraunda, District- Siwan. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 07-12-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the parents 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 daughter of the informant after one year of marriage for non- fulfillment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that during investigation, it has come that fight used to take place between the victim and her husband when there is no specific accusation against the petitioners and the witnesses have also suggested that one day prior to occurrence the husband of the victim fought with the victim. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.41701 of 2012 (2) dt.07-12-2012 2 / 2 2 Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband of the victim, let the petitioners above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Doraunda P.S. Case No. 16 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Siwan, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (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.