Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.9087 of 2012 ====================================================== Harendra Prasad & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 27-03-2012 Petitioner No. 1 being husband and petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 being parents of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing daughter of the informant, after five years of the marriage by poison, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that victim died due to some post surgical complications. Considering the nature of accusation, this Court is not inclined to grant privilege of anticipatory bail to petitioner No. 1 namely Harendra Prasad. The application for bail of petitioner No. 1 stands rejected. So far as petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 are concerned, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.9087 of 2012 (2) dt.27-03-2012 2 / 2 2 since thrust of accusation is against the husband being petitioner No. 1, let petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 namely Dhorha Prasad, Kalawati Devi, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Jogapatti P.S. Case No. 166 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.