Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15347 of 2012 (2) dt.25-04-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.15347 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Meena Devi & 2. Lotha Devi @ Fula Devi. .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 25-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being married sister of the husband of the deceased are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . The accusation is of killing the sister of the informant after four years of the marriage for non-fulfilment of dowry demands. It is submitted that both the petitioners are married sisters of the husband of the deceased and they were residing at their in- laws house. Considering the fact that thrust of accusation is against the husband, 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, Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.15347 of 2012 (2) dt.25-04-2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Biharsharif in Sohsarai P.S.case No.9 of 2012, 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.