Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7513 of 2012 (2) dt.15-03-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7513 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Belu Yadav @ Bailu Yadav 2. Sudami Devi .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that after four years of the marriage sister of the informant was killed for non-fulfilment of dowry demand and during postmortem a ligature mark was found on the neck of the deceased. Admittedly, the informant is not the eye witness to the occurrence and considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, who as per learned counsel for the petitioners will surrender within a period of four weeks from today, let the above named two petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7513 of 2012 (2) dt.15-03-2012 bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamui in Chakai P.S.case No.145 of 2009, 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.