Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15768 of 2012 (2) dt.27-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15768 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Parmanand Jha, 2. Anjula Devi .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after seven years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that on the own admission of the informant, the case does not come within the purview of [STATUTE] and the informant has retracted from the initial version and the husband has been granted regular bail by this court vide Cr. Misc. No. 722/2012. This Court sees no reason for the learned court below not to give similar relief to the petitioners in case they surrender within six weeks from today in connection with Forbesganj Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15768 of 2012 (2) dt.27-04-2012 (Simraha)P.S. Case no. 164 of 2011 pending in the court of C.J.M., Araria. This application is disposed of with the aforesaid observation/direction. Let this order be transmitted through FAX at the cost of the petitioners. Anil/- (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.