Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3150 of 2012 ====================================================== Harendra Rai & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 31-01-2012 Petitioners being parents of the husband are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . Accusation is of killing the victim within two years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demand. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is general accusation against the entire family including the petitioners and other family members have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, let the petitioners namely 1. Harendra Rai 2. Sharda Devi @ Phulwa Devi, 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 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3150 of 2012 (2) dt.31-01-2012 2 / 2 2 two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hajipur in connection with Hajipur Sadar P.S. Case No. 293 of 2011. 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.