Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31382 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Kunal Singh 2. Rajo Singh. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 30-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners being the husband and father 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 five years of the marriage for non-fulfillment of the dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during investigation, the accusation was found false and final form was submitted when mother of the husband of the victim has only been charge sheeted under [STATUTE] , the final form has been brought on record as Annexure-2, but differing with the final form, the cognizance has been taken against the petitioners also. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31382 of 2012 (2) dt.30-08-2012 2/2 petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Barahiya P.S. Case No. 163 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (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.