Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.984 of 2012 Kaushalya Devi Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 02. 13.01.2012 Petitioner being mother of the husband is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the marriage was performed 6-7 years prior to the occurrence and the accusations are of demand of dowry and torture. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during investigation it has come that the victim, after quarrelling with the husband, committed suicide. It is further submitted that father-in-law and others have been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 265 of 2012. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Kaushalya Devi, in the event of her 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa, Nalanda in connection with Karai Parsurai P.S. Case No. 69 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.