Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.34680 of 2012 ====================================================== Bueeya Kuwar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-09-2012 Petitioner being mother of the husband of the victim is apprehending her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing daughter of the informant after one year of marriage, for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. The First Information Report reflects that accusation of demand of dowry and torture is alleged against the husband. Considering the thrust of accusation against the husband, who, as per learned counsel for the petitioner will surrender within a period of six weeks, let the petitioner, above named, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.34680 of 2012 (2) dt.14-09-2012 2 / 2 2 satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran, Chapra in connection with Garkha P.S. Case No. 30 of 2012. The bail bonds of the petitioner will be accepted on surrender of the husband of the victim. 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.