Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.5275 of 2012 ====================================================== Chandeshwar Mahto & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 23-02-2012 Petitioners being parents and sister of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the niece of the informant slightly over one year of the marriage by administering poison for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband who as per learned counsel for the petitioner will surrender within five weeks, let the petitioners namely 1. Chandeshwar Mahto 2. Chunnu Mahto 3. Rupa Kumari, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.5275 of 2012 (2) dt.23-02-2012 2 / 2 2 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, West, Muzaffarpur in connection with Saraiya P.S. Case No. 273 of 2009. The bail bond of the petitioners will be accepted on surrender of the husband. 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.