Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12504 of 2012 (2) dt.09-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12504 of 2012 ====================================================== Hardeo Jha & Anr .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 02/ 09.04.2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners being parents-in-law of the deceased are languishing in jail custody since 10.1.2012 in a case registered under [STATUTE] . Admittedly, dead body of the deceased has not been recovered. So, the cause of death of the deceased could not be ascertained. It appears from perusal of the first information report itself that informant has only expressed his suspicion regarding commission of murder of his daughter. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, let the petitioners, Hardeo Jha and Triveni Devi, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in Samho P.S. Case no. 25/2011. Shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,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.