Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.30598 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Marichhia Devi W/O Late Mandhari Rai Resident Of Village- Sakari Saraiya, P.S.- Kurhani (Turki O.P.), Distt.- Muzaffarpur 2. Usha Devi W/O Nandu Rai Resident Of Village- Sakari Saraiya, P.S.- Kurhani (Turki O.P.), Distt.- Muzaffarpur .... .... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 16-10-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being mother in law and brother’s wife of the husband of the victim are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant after three years of the marriage. Dead body was recovered from the well with injuries caused by hard and blunt substance. It is submitted that Panchayat representative has issued a certificate that the petitioners were separate from the husband of the victim since last ten years. Let the learned court below consider the regular bail of the petitioners in case the petitioners surrender within eight weeks Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.30598 of 2012 (3) dt.16-10-2012 2/2 from today in connection with Kurhni (Turki O.P.) P.S. Case no. 186 of 2011 pending in the court of learned SDJM, West Muzaffarpur. 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.