Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2002 of 2012 Janki Devi Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 23.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being mother of the husband, is apprehending arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of torture for non-fulfillment of dowry demands. It is submitted that during investigation, it has come that the victim caught fire in course of preparing tea and the petitioner tried to give her medical assistance after the incident. Considering the fact that the thrust of accusation is against the husband who, as per submission of learned counsel for the petitioner, is in custody, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M. Buxar in Buxar (T) P.S. Case No. 248 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. 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.