Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43724 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Shankar Sharma 2. Phoolmati Devi 3. Sangita Devi 4. Rima Kumari .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 14-12-2012 Petitioners being parents, sister and sister-in-law of the husband of the victim are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and ¾ of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Accusation is of killing the daughter of the informant within one year of marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the victim died on 20.04.2009 when the complaint was filed on 24.06.2009 which came to be registered as police case on 01.02.2012. It is further submitted that victim was employed at Mairwah when the petitioners reside at the village home which is the distant place from the place the Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43724 of 2012 (2) dt.14-12-2012 2 / 2 2 victim was working when the informant has subsequently retracted from the initial version. Considering the same, let the petitioners, above named, 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 amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Dauroli P.S. Case No. 12 of 2012. 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.