Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.37323 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ravi Sao @ Lallu Sao 2. Babi Devi @ Bebi Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 11-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the sister and brother- in-law of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the informant’s daughter was killed after three years of the marriage for non- fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that in the FIR there is no specific accusation against the petitioners and the petitioners are married 25 years prior to the occurrence and residing at Delhi. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.37323 of 2012 (2) dt.11-10-2012 2/2 is against the husband of the victim, who, as per learned counsel for the petitioners, is in custody, 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, Nalanda in connection with Asthawan P.S. Case No. 64 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.